Mañana, y mañana, y mañana

structurally flexible. engaging characters. lightly nostalgic (but not too much!). devoured in 4 days: it was enjoyable!

it was sad, at times. i think i enjoyed all characters? except for probably dov. the rendition of relationships over such a span of time is something i don't recall ever reading. the internal monologues and renditions of conflicts from different points of view were something special, i feel

Vakker. Få bøkar har rørt ved så mange aspekt av meg sjølv. Det er ikkje den beste boka eg har lest, eller den mest underhaldande. Det var delar av historia eg var usamd med, og som irriterte meg. Men eg klarte ikkje å slutte å lese.

Anbefalast til alle kreative sjelar som likar å skape nye verder.

3.5 Stars

This is one of those books that attracts you from the very beginning and you can't stop reading (until you realise that you don't want it to end that soon, either!). An interesting and well-written story that follows the successes and failures of its complex characters, driven by their passion for video games and full of lights and shadows. This is a story about gamers, and video games. But it also about life, passion, success and failure but, above all, about human relationships, and lives and worlds that could be but are not. Like a video game with the greatest engine: our imagination. Like a book.

This book is beautiful. I laughed and cried so many times. I hated some characters, loved others. Gabrielle Zevin has a way of making you tear through pages and go on. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.

I loved reading this book. One of the best books that I have read (which aren't many). I loved the writing. It shows the author is just brilliant. She did such a great job at making you experience the world she created in the book.

The book has great starts and you are grasped from the first chapter, but it becomes amazingly great after the mid. Last few chapters are so creatively written, Wow! So inspiring.

3,5 El libro es sencillo de leer, entretenido sobre todo para una friki como yo. Desarrolladores de videojuegos, personalidades fuertes, traumas, egos. Me enganchó bastante al principio, pero la segunda mitad va decayendo. Los eventos empiezan a no tener sentido, los personajes se van quedando sin contenido y, al final, me quedo con la sensación de que no ha sido todo lo redondo que podía haber sido.

I loved all the gaming parts, I felt like I "learned" a lot while it being very enjoyable to read, the characters by their stories and different ways of thinking brought a lot too, I felt connected to them, even though I did not cry at the sad parts so not that much connected maybe lol but I rec this very much to anyone really

Ta książka nie jest wybitna, ale w czasie, kiedy potrzebowałam odpoczynku, wciągnęła mnie bardzo.
Miejscami dobra, nawet w wielu miejscach. Czasami gubi tempo, czasami jest bardzo przewidywalna. Ale ma w sobie to coś.
Niektóre postacie źle napisane, inne dały mi do myślenia (Sam, I feel you) albo je polubiłam.
Wciągnęła, rozśmieszyła, wzruszyła.
TW: śmierć, przemoc seksualna, samobójstwo

Thoroughly enjoyed this read. The alternate history with firm moorings in actual video game development timelines made it feel very grounded and relatable. The principals are all folks with whom I would enjoy having as friends, making it all the more wrenching as they encounter their various heartbreaks and difficulties loving each other as well as they might wish. (And I want to play most of the fictional games!) The Sadie/Sam "we love each other deeply but are never together romantically" angle was refreshing; that sort of dynamic seems underexplored in fiction. Great stuff.

The games we play are models of human behavior and so they can also be a structure to build a novel on. The poignancy is, of course, the difference between a game and life and death itself.
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cicerone
in medias res
ludic
Torschlusspanik
Zweisamkeit
Verschlimmbesserung
Grand Guignol
cutscene
deictic
eidetic
anfractuous

Loved the book until the darn ending.

trying to keep my cool about it but this book fucking destroyed me, it's so good