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A review by apumaru
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
5.0
Simplified summary:
Sam and Sadie, childhood friends, make video games together in adulthood.
Opening lines:
Before Mazer invented himself as Mazer, he was Samson Mazer, and before he was Samson Mazer, he was Samson Masur - a change of two letters that transformed him from a nice, ostensibly Jewish boy to a Professional Builder of Worlds - and for most of his youth, he was Sam, S.A.M. on the hall of fame of his grandfather's Donkey Kong machine, but mainly Sam.
Review:
I've never read more real characters in my entire life. Honestly, I recommend reading this book for how true to life these characters are. I'm not making any comments about whether or not you'll like the characters, but it will be impossible to say that you haven't seen some version of these people in your life. While the character work is everything, the way the story is told is, jumping back and forth in time and between characters is done deftly and kept me engaged through and through. And I haven't even talked about how lovely and ugly and raw love is portrayed. Probably my favorite contemporary/straight fiction reads this year. Anyway, I'm off to reread A.J. Fikry now, bye.
Sam and Sadie, childhood friends, make video games together in adulthood.
Opening lines:
Before Mazer invented himself as Mazer, he was Samson Mazer, and before he was Samson Mazer, he was Samson Masur - a change of two letters that transformed him from a nice, ostensibly Jewish boy to a Professional Builder of Worlds - and for most of his youth, he was Sam, S.A.M. on the hall of fame of his grandfather's Donkey Kong machine, but mainly Sam.
Review:
I've never read more real characters in my entire life. Honestly, I recommend reading this book for how true to life these characters are. I'm not making any comments about whether or not you'll like the characters, but it will be impossible to say that you haven't seen some version of these people in your life. While the character work is everything, the way the story is told is, jumping back and forth in time and between characters is done deftly and kept me engaged through and through. And I haven't even talked about how lovely and ugly and raw love is portrayed. Probably my favorite contemporary/straight fiction reads this year. Anyway, I'm off to reread A.J. Fikry now, bye.