Replay

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Es interesante desde el punto de vista que habla de muchas cosas muy diferentes, desde los primeros videojuegos en computadora y las diferentes consolas, hasta abordando los primeros juegos o los mas representativos para cada genero de videojuego. After a while, there is the added frisson of a romance that spans the lives as Jeff encounters another person undergoing the same horror/excitement, (and it is sometimes a joy and sometimes deathly; the groundhog day stuggle writ large) and then the two of them together encounter a third who, instead of seeking ways in which he can improve the lot of the world, uses his re-life for murder and mayhem.

Este título es muy dulce, la primera parte es muy blandita, no contiene escenas explícitas y se centra en presentarnos a los protagonistas y el desarrollo de su historia. Primero conocemos a Yuta, nuestro protagonista principal que, a punto de graduarse del instituto, ha terminado con su etapa en el club deportivo y se ha despedido del Beisbol. Por otro lado tenemos a Ritsu, su mejor amigo, quien también pertenecía al equipo. Tras finalizar las actividades deportivas, Ritsu se ha vuelto extrañamente distante con Yuta, no tiene tiempo para dedicarle y está totalmente centrado en los exámenes de acceso a la universidad. Yuta no comprende su actitud y comienzan a darse una serie de circunstancias y malentendidos que van llevando su relación a un nuevo punto. When I try wrapping my mind around time travel and the math associated with such concepts the pressure in my head usually has me looking for a shot of high octane alcohol to keep my brain from exploding into shards of disconnected thoughts. It wouldn’t be very useful after that.I think that one of the reasons I avoided reading this for so long is that it is saddled under the unfortunate umbrella of time travel fiction. Often this means a lot of obtuse descriptions of quantum mechanics and the paradoxes of accidentally meeting yourself in the past; Time Travel 101, if you will. Fortunately, Grimwood plays upon the well-worn theme with a unique twist. El caso es que conseguí terminarla y como punto positivo me quedo con esas reflexiones que propone y que genera. Tilly Logan is a fiery, Scottish lass who didn’t bat an eye five years ago when a smoldering Italian pulled her into a nightclub bathroom. He was dark, dangerous, and exactly the good time Tilly was looking for—even if he worked for her over-protective brother’s team.

Yuta is pretty easy-going but you can't always tell how serious he is about things he says. Ritsu is reserved but has surprisingly passionate feelings. It was nice dynamic where them liking each other was never in question, just the deepness of it. El libro me ha gustado, si bien ha habido partes que se me han hecho mas tediosas ya el ritmo no es elevado.Linking both timelines is Replay's third, "yellow" present-day frame, recounting my move to France for a video game project in 2016, as an American with two teenage kids. It's a story of today's game industry, when multimillion-dollar productions involving hundreds of people can be greenlit, morph, change direction, and get cancelled. Grimwood toys with some interesting concepts along the way, but never really gets to the “why”? Which is something I don't ordinarily complain about, I don't have to be spoon-fed everything. Here it just feels like a cheat - like going to your favorite restaurant in anticipation of a grand meal only to find that it was closed by the Board of Health. Those stories are basically retellings of Replay. So many of the events, solutions, even the focus on Kennedy, gambling, and building brand new careers, repeating a whole lifetime over and over, learning and attempting bold crazy schemes, are the same. Tambien es interesante su acercamiento a los diferentes generos y desarolladores en diferentes partes del mundo y como es que se vivio el auge de los videojuegos en diferentes lados. Muchas veces nos enfocamos solo en los videojuegos de USA y de Japon, pero aqui incluye otras zonas lo que lo hace interesante ya que desconocia mucho de esa parte. I don't really care about genre categories and whether Replay should be considered science fiction or fantasy or mainstream (speculative fiction seems the best bet) . The author deliberately avoids any attempt at a scientific explanation for the ordeal/blessing Jeff is subjected to, because the point of the novel is self discovery and the Meaning of Life. Jeff exclaims at one point:

There's quite a bit about Argentina, the desaparecidos, & the many horrific things from that time, as well as the continuing quest to shine light/bring evidence to what happened. (There was also discussion of the horrific practice of dumping living victims into the South Atlantic. This is the second book I've read in the last year or two that mentions that assassination technique. It was basically a way for the ruling junta to ensure there would be no bodies to find down the road. Prior to the last few years, I'm not sure I had heard of that.) There were various, intertwined facets for those parts of the book, they were pretty well-done/well-written, & they fit the story well from the investigative reporter (the main character) standpoint. What I enjoyed were the many quotations from famous individuals describing their takes on things. They explained the cultural influences and the charming stories about how things came to be a certain way, often seemingly by chance. It describes the dynamic between businessman and hobbyist and between career and leisure. At forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ... Agarrei no livrinho e tentei dar-lhe um bom avanço e assim que o fiz, mal avancei umas páginas, a leitura envolveu-me e a história sofreu uma reviravolta. In the summer, we usually took a trip, all of us piled in a car and heading out to Wisconsin or Michigan or, once, to Idaho. We must have been a very noisy bunch, and I'm not sure how our parents put up with being cooped up with us in the car for those trips. The five-day trip out to Idaho when I was twelve had a powerful effect on me: what a huge and amazing country! I had no idea then that thirty-some years later, I would recreate that trip in a book called Walk Two Moons.At thirty-seven, Marc Levy wrote a story for the man that his son would grow up to be. In early 1999, his sister, a screenwriter (now a film director), encouraged him to send the manuscript to a French publisher, who immediately decided to publish If Only It Were True. Before it was published, Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks) acquired film rights to the novel. The movie, Just like Heaven, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, was a #1 box office hit in America in 2005. I had read it twenty years ago and I did not remember anything about "Replay", except that I did liked it a lot. Wow. I read this book in an afternoon. Okay, that’s not the first time I’ve done that for a book, but this was STUNNING. Sharon Creech has a way of weaving words together in a way that just pulls you in and makes you CARE. I wanted to like this book because the premise is pretty cool: an investigative journalist is murdered, then he 'wakes up' & finds himself reliving the 60 days before his murder, essentially giving him two months to figure out who wanted to kill him & why.