10/21 | page 210 | "On vacation to Montana so slowed down. If there was a male equivalent for the word misogynist, Pym would get the label. All the men are obtuse, dense, and not up to the quality of the excellent women." Our heroine, for example, sits down with Everard Bone. He tells her that she is a sensible woman. She asks him: What kind of woman would you want to marry? He replies: "Oh, a sensible woman." But Mildred is not on his radar. How boorish! How insensitive! How unlikely! What intelligent young man, sitting with a single woman, would make such a comment? |
Follows Sadie and Sam (Mazer) from childhood to mid-thirties when both are feeling old and a bit out of it in the gaming world. Characters are well-rounded, develop throughout the novel in interesting way. Plot is involved but sensible. Not a single, "Oh, come on!" moment. The book could have been faster paced. Odd, since the main topic is video games which are not for their speed of engagement and Gabrielle Zevin clearly knows her video games. Recommended by Michael Connelly in an interview. He also has Bosch pick up the book in his novel, Resurrection Walk, as Bosch tails a possible witness to a crime as she moves through a bookstore. Sadie and Sam do not get together at the end, which is good. Marx killed by homophobic nutcase who really wants to kill Sam, but Sam isn't there. Marx is father of Sadie's child.
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