List Price: £20.99 Price: £13.59 You save: £7.40 (35%)
Media: Paperback Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Interesting, but doesn't help you get started Some really good background and context for SL, and some good detailed tips for doing things like creating and finessing your avatar, but I (and a lot of others I met) spent a long time stuck on the introduction Island and couldn't find a way off and no help from the 'Guide' book. Took me some persistence to really get going in SL and the book didn't really help me in the 'Rough Guide' way I'd have liked. Still - if you've alreayd got mates in SL, you'll be fine and this book can help add a few... more info
Life in a Hyper-World I do strongly recommend this book for it is packed with invaluable advice for the Second Life newcomer. It is perhaps a mark of this books' quality that it has yet to become superceeded as a definitive introduction to Second Life. The downside to this is that despite the fact that it has only been published for a few months much of its content is old - such is the pace of change in Second Life. Nevertheless it is a superbly crafted publication with great layout and illustrations. Instead of merely... more info
Get a life, a second one. I won't duplicate the info in the Synopsis nearby. A pleasure to handle and read being on good quality gloss paper with coloured illustrations on nearly every page. Could do with an index as there are so many features you will want to read again when you encounter them in the `game'. It would help if there was an online copy that could then be searched. It would still be worth buying the book for the greater convenience. Second Life like real life is so complex and evolving so fast that you feel as helpless... more info
Not bad, but not so good The book is not bad, but you have to understand that you only get an overview of Second Life. It may be useful for newbies, but that's all. The information about building is poor, a lot of information is quite outdated considering that this is an "Official Guide", but is nice if you are just starting and want to understand a bit of this incredible world ;-)
