In Player One we watch the end of the world from the cocktail lounge of an airport in Toronto. The novel switches between the points of view of 4 different characters. Luke is a pastor who has gotten tired of his old life and decided to steal all of the churches money and run away; he is now questioning everything that he previously believed in life. Rachel an extremely intelligent young woman who has a disorder where she cannot differentiate faces; she has come to the bar to try find someone to have a child with. Rick is a bartender who is recently overcoming an alcohol addiction; he is so desperate to get his life turned around that he gives an enormous sum of money to a tv self help guy. Karen works as a receptionist at a psychiatric office and has come to the bar to meet a guy she has been talking to on an internet chat room.
In the beginning I was having trouble becoming interested in the book. Everyone is sitting in the bar before anything starts going wrong and the conversations were difficult to stay awake through. The fact that everyone's story is overlapping and a lot of stuff is repeated four times didn't help of course. There were things about the 4 overlapping story lines that I enjoyed very much; being able to observe how differently separate people were interpreting the same events was really interesting and sometimes even humorous (Rick and Rachel's interaction for example).
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