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Not that the entertainment conglomerates didn’t notice the gaming tsunami. And then the dust settled and the big companies triumphed. Like music before the seventies, like tech before the twenty first century. If for no other reason than there’s more money in video games than music! Used to be all the innovation came through music, but if you want to observe the cutting edge pay attention to video games. And then came the PlayStation and the Xbox. They got no attention, no respect, just like rock music in its infancy/ascendancy.Īnd of course the real breakthrough was Atari, there was gaming in the eighties, but that company crashed, taking down Warner stock, the ignorant thought video games were history. Whereas “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is about VIDEO GAMES!Īnd that gets no traction amongst the aforementioned intelligentsia.īut video games were the rock music of the nineties and the first decade of this century. You were part of the cognoscenti, the intelligentsia, despite the criticism that it was basically a YA title (“Young Adult”.) And “Garp” was ultimately about family, and done well that always resonates. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is the new “Goldfinch,” with a bit of “Garp” thrown in, you remember, the unexpected surprises in that John Irving book?īut Donna Tartt’s “Goldfinch” was about art. I’d give it a whirl, if it didn’t float my boat, no big deal, I’d move on, go back to Haigh.īut “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is astounding! And I plan on reading the rest, but all of a sudden, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” became available. I don’t write about everything I read, nor everything I watch, this is not a document of my life, I only put fingers to keyboard if I believe it’s worth your time, your attention.Īnd the net said “Faith” was the best Haigh book I hadn’t read, and I devoured it. “Mercy Street” is one of the best books I’ve read this year.Īnd I’d already read 2016’s “Heat & Light,” but one day I went on Libby and downloaded the rest of Haigh’s books, I was sick of reading unrewarding work.

So I went to Libby and reserved it.Īnd I’ve been on a Jennifer Haigh kick. I trust the wisdom of the crowd only so far. But I’d never heard of this author, Gabrielle Zevin, who was not a newbie, she’d had previous books published. They didn’t get the book, or it came damaged, or…Īnd the book was published by Knopf, the Mo Ostin’s Warner Brothers of book publishers.

Especially since there are always people posting one star reviews having nothing to do with the content. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” had four and a half stars with over a thousand reviews. I immediately went to Amazon and researched it. And as a result there are anomalies all the time.

But it was the second best selling book in Los Angeles, as reported by the L.A.