Azal biguna, 464 orrialde
Nederlands hizkuntza
Nieuw Amsterdam(e)k argitaratua.
Op een ijskoude dag in zijn eerste jaar op Harvard stapt Sam Masur uit de metro en ziet Sadie Green. Hij roept haar naam. Even doet ze alsof ze hem niet hoort maar dan draait ze zich om. Het is het begin van een legendarische samenwerking. Sam en Sadie zijn nog geen vijfentwintig, ze zijn briljant, succesvol en beroemd vanwege hun gamedesigns. Maar dit zal ze niet beschermen tegen hun ambities of tegen de liefde.
Morgen en morgen en morgen is een opwindende en duizelingwekkende roman over vriendschap, beperking, creativiteit, en boven alles over onze behoefte aan verbinding: lief te hebben en geliefd te worden. Ja, dit is een liefdesverhaal, maar een zoals je nooit eerder hebt gelezen.
A beautiful story of people doing their best to love another. Just clever enough and just heart-wrenching enough
trying to keep my cool about it but this book fucking destroyed me, it's so good
This is the first book in a while that I've had trouble putting down, it kept me reading later than I intended more than once. It's a complex, touching story about friendship and the value of play, which spans several decades. During that time Sam and Sadie meet, have quarrels, make up again, quarrel again, fall in love with other people, and make video games both together and separately.
It's set in the world of video game development so knowing some of those terms probably helps a little but I don't think it's really necessary; it's more about creating art together than the games themselves. (The game making is a little simplified, and as someone who works in the game industry I found it a little unbelievable in places - making an MMO with the staff they appeared to have? No way.) But waving those beside in suspension of disbelief, …
This is the first book in a while that I've had trouble putting down, it kept me reading later than I intended more than once. It's a complex, touching story about friendship and the value of play, which spans several decades. During that time Sam and Sadie meet, have quarrels, make up again, quarrel again, fall in love with other people, and make video games both together and separately.
It's set in the world of video game development so knowing some of those terms probably helps a little but I don't think it's really necessary; it's more about creating art together than the games themselves. (The game making is a little simplified, and as someone who works in the game industry I found it a little unbelievable in places - making an MMO with the staff they appeared to have? No way.) But waving those beside in suspension of disbelief, I doubt they'd bother anyone who doesn't actually make games for a living.
Really the book is about friendship, and flawed, complex characters, and art, and loss, and being human. It's refreshing to read an entire book about a couple that is about friendship rather than romance. It was sweet, and touching, and thought-provoking, and also occasionally annoying when the characters are clearly being idiots, but they're so well written that at least you can understand why they're being idiots. I would highly recommend this book.
Trigger warnings: there are a couple of violent deaths mentioned, and there's non-graphic description of an inappropriate teacher-student relationship with non-consensual bondage elements. These are not dwelled on any more than needed for the story's purposes, but are unavoidable elements of the plot.
