Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Overhyped and overrated twaddle.

Insufferable, two-dimensional characters who held grudges and caused conflict for no reason other than to make something happen in the book.

This book was meant to be a love letter to video games yet the games they created sounded as fun as walking across a room full of LEGO barefoot.

Nonsense, pretentious words dropped in every so often in an attempt to elevate the writing. These were just jarring and left me thinking the author had randomly deployed Word's thesaurus tool to terrible effect.

How on earth this passage got through an editor beggars all belief:

“She leaned in to kiss him, and he kissed her, and then she put her hand between his legs, wrapping her fingers around the cylindrical chamber of blood sponges that was his (and every) penis. He felt the corpora cavernosa, commanded by nerve messages from his subconscious brain, fill up with blood, and the tunica albuginea membrane, the penis's straitjacket, trap the blood inside.”

Sweet mercies, I've just thrown up all over my Kindle.

The fact that this book got twice as many votes as Backman's masterpiece ‘The Winners' in the Goodreads Fiction Book of the Year Award makes me question whether reading is for me.

Fiction book of the year and one the best books people have ever read?! Please...it's not even the best book I read this week.

2 stars because I finished it.