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Hands down one of my favorite books of all time! I laughed, I cried, I fangirled over 80s games and memorabilia!

4.5 stars rounded up
dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced
challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Very interesting read. I am not into video games and I read enjoyed reading it. Ar some point it gets a bit stuck in the narrative but manages to have a good ending 

4.5, maybe even 4.25, but rounding up (at least for now) because it’s still the best book I’ve read so far this year. We’ll see if I bump it back down to a 4, eventually.

Loved the catch 22-ish style of writing where it feels like word association and the ending sentence of one section serves as a topic change or character focus for the next section. I devoured this in 2 days, and ugly cried while reading for longer than I’d like to admit.

If the first ~80% of the novel ran, the last 20% dragged / crawled / limped / twitched. Not sure if it was a pacing issue or what, but dialogue became stilted, social commentary became heavy handed, and it felt like something beautiful ended in a whimper. Had it not been for the ugly crying, the last handful of pages were egregious enough for me to question if the previous hundreds of pages were “even that good”

a quick read but i also just didn’t really like it?