This book is mainly about Sam Masur (who changes his name a few times) and Sadie Green. They aren't really friends, but they hang around as friends. They both like video games and creating them. The who book is full of conversation about video games, good ones, bad ones. He attended Harvard and she went to MIT, where a teacher challenges his students to come up with an interesting game. The teacher doesn't like anything they create. Well I'm thinking that the book is an analogy, but for what I don't know. It has a high rating on Amazon and GoodReads. I didn't like it

I didn't understand the point of the book. Toward the end it was all video game talk. Friendships didn't make sense. Sadie had a relationship with the teacher, Dov, who was married. The childish characters immaturely meandered through life, vaguely navigating friendship, love, secrets, trauma, disability, guilt, self-identity. But the constant back and forth between we're friends/we're not friends, let's work together/we can't work together, wonderful game/terrible game...nearly gave me whiplash! Characters moved on to adulthood (buying a house, marriage, pregnancy, parenthood, death), but didn't seem to grow up emotionally.

Agitated. I wanted to understand what it was all about. Then at the end, I was annoyed with myself for spending the time to read the book.

I didn't enjoy it at all. I was intrigued by the opening of the book, but it lost me early. I really should have abandoned it, but I wanted to give it a try. I wouldn't recommend it, because for me it was dull and meaningless.

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