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A review by smart_as_paint
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
3.0
There's something a little uncanny valley about how (Tomorrow, and)x3 relates to video games. Perhaps this is a limitation with the written medium, but the games don't feel real. It's like when I used to watch my older brother play video games from across the basement room and I couldn't quite see the bottom of the screen. So I just imagined what the HUD looked like. They all feel like vague approximations of Stardew Valley mixed with some new genre.
The Shakespeare feels more natural that the games. I suspect this is because the memetic regurgitation of Shakespeare's most famous quotes isn't just a literary shorthand for this character is a brooding nerd, it's also how most youths (myself very-much included) imbibe the Bard. To sell my kingdom for a horse or not to winter of our discontent. All the world's a stage Am i right?
The book is entirely too accepting of sexual assaulters. Dov is technically not a rapist and writing that clause makes me gag. The book shrugs it off with an older-men will be older-men attitude. It's the reason I will never recommend this book. Don't read (Tomorrow, and)x3. That is my official position.
The final scene with Marx is by far the best scene in the entire book. It's the first and only time I felt real tension. I just wish it wasn't burdened with the rest of the book
The Shakespeare feels more natural that the games. I suspect this is because the memetic regurgitation of Shakespeare's most famous quotes isn't just a literary shorthand for this character is a brooding nerd, it's also how most youths (myself very-much included) imbibe the Bard. To sell my kingdom for a horse or not to winter of our discontent. All the world's a stage Am i right?
The book is entirely too accepting of sexual assaulters. Dov is technically not a rapist and writing that clause makes me gag. The book shrugs it off with an older-men will be older-men attitude. It's the reason I will never recommend this book. Don't read (Tomorrow, and)x3. That is my official position.
The final scene with Marx is by far the best scene in the entire book. It's the first and only time I felt real tension. I just wish it wasn't burdened with the rest of the book