Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By Gabrielle Zevin

  • Release Date: 2022-07-05
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4
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From 4,141 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

"Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green

 
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily

From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.

These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

Reviews

  • It Had Potential

    3
    By Tragic Comic
    First thing: I purposely did not read any reviews of this book before I wrote this. It’ll be obvious why if you keep reading this. Overall, it was a decent storyline and interesting characters, but there were several points in the book where things didn’t seem realistic. The problem with that is that it is exactly like a movie; if something isn’t believable, it takes you out of the fantasy you were planning on being in for an hour and a half or two hours. If something happens that makes you conscious of the fact that you are watching a movie, it’s a disappointment. This may not be something that bothers others, but I lost count how many words were inserted into the text that were seemingly there to – impress? I love words that aren’t used enough in the English language, but they have their place. There were many times where I thought, “That is not a word that is used casually between friends that are hanging out.” My first thought when the book was finished was that it was about a third too long. With all of that said, I actually didn’t hate the book. If you are into gaming or lived through the gaming explosions that happened in the 80’s and 90’s, this will be a nice walk down memory lane.
  • Cute!

    4
    By adip2017
    Ending alone pushed this to a solid 4 for me! What a cute story about love, heartache, and friendship. There are so many intricate details that intertwine throughout the story beautifully. I did find some chapters faster paced and easier to read than others, but overall really enjoyed the concept and
  • Phenominal!

    5
    By Upstater
    Pace is perfect. Character development is extensive but not redundant. I love that the storyline ties in progressive (for the time period) ideology. I’m not a gamer but I felt at home in the world of gaming. 10/10 recommend
  • Awful.

    1
    By diehardredskinsfan89
    Just awful. I don’t know how anyone reads this boring drivel. And how does it become a bestseller? I only made it maybe 1/5th of the way into the book. So boring and so long. I don’t care what happens to these characters or their games.
  • Complicated

    3
    By Jeff M.A
    A good book even if you are not a gamer, but probably better for those who are. I do feel it relies a little too heavily on the games to tell the story but it still has something that keeps you in the story/game.
  • Sweet read

    4
    By Melblevs
    I really liked this book. I liked the development of the characters. It touches on intimate & plutonic love, and grief. It was. Sweet read. It left me feeling emotional but not in a bad way.
  • Bizarre book

    1
    By dbm217
    Hard to really develop interests in the characters. The story is all over the place and sometimes hard to follow.
  • Hopeful

    5
    By Kat_thegreatXXII
    I absolutely adored this book. Gaming nostalgia and the characters are incredibly relatable.
  • Knots in my stomach

    5
    By MatteoIv
    All I can say is wow, these characters are beautifully depicted, the world seems vividly real, and my soul feels entrenched in the messy yet beautiful lives Sadie, Sam, and Marx live while making games. I want to know more of their lives (an expansion pack as you say) but the ending really ties together the theme of the book. Genius storytelling.
  • Loved it!

    5
    By the truth 24
    This was a fantastic book about friendship and the journey of life for Sam and Sadie. The book had my emotions going 15 minutes into he read and kept me interested through the end.