Elsewhere

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I'm bummed but not surprised that this re-read didn't live up to how much I remember loving this book back when I was in middle/high school.

Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Teenagers of the 21st century are as likely to bond over video games as they are rock music or movies.Following a twenty-five-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity. Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities.

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While Zevin's depiction of the afterlife is kind of creative, it's mostly confounding (turns out death is just as routine and dull as everyday life .Unfortunately, Lizzy whines a lot about never getting to grow up and the novel is more annoying than introspective. It doesn’t work with me … a 28-year-old man (if I remember it correctly) fall in love with a 15-year-old girl. Since Liz can't remember who the person was or why all doors must remain closed, she decides to ignore the advice.

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I loved Elsewhere it kept me guessing, I could relate to Liz Hall so much, except for the whole death part, of course. incredible, like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon meets The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. Woven throughout are meditations on originality, appropriation, the similarities between video games and other forms of art, the liberating possibilities of inhabiting a virtual world, and the ways in which platonic love can be deeper and more rewarding - especially in the context of a creative partnership - than romance.She finds a new friend in Owen, one of the detectives in charge of keeping the inhabitants of Elsewhere away from the Well, where contact with people on Earth is possible, but illegal.