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I’m not a gamer, but this book made me want to play the games these characters created. The games themselves were a character in this story.
This novel about video game design partners doesn’t sound enticing but is incredibly well-written. Shakespeare quotes, Oregon trail references, and most importantly, redemptive love and friendship between the characters throughout their ups and downs made this book a winner for me.
I really enjoyed the first half of this book. It's the story of two video game developers, how they got into it, and their relationship with each other and their games. Definitely not plot-heavy. It relied heavily on characters not communicating well with other characters, which I really hate. For example, he doesn't do a thing because he's in pain, but she thinks he doesn't do the thing because he's being a jerk, so she calls him a jerk, and he never mentions that he's in pain and just lets her
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I e been avoiding this book for awhile because, while on all the bestseller and best books lists, I didn’t want to read a book about gaming. This book is not about gaming. It’s a classically Gen X book. The characters suffer and have trauma and they get up and get to work.
It’s about work and creativity and love and friendship and growing up and getting old. I really have no complaints about plot, pacing, construction, language none of it. It’s in fact full of some of the lost beautiful metaphor ...more
It’s about work and creativity and love and friendship and growing up and getting old. I really have no complaints about plot, pacing, construction, language none of it. It’s in fact full of some of the lost beautiful metaphor ...more
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