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corrie's review
3.0
I started this fallback Friday pick back in June and just finished it today. It seems (looking at other reviews) that I had the same problem with Everything You Have Is Mine by Sandra Scoppettone - the book has a promising start but towards the middle the plot gets very convoluted it’s hard to keep focus. So I put it away and read something else.
The book is 29 years old and it shows. AIDS, bulletin boards, 2400 Baud modems, pay phones. The author gave a very detailed account of her sleuth Lauren and how she falls prey to the evil modem addiction (lol!). Turns out reading about old tech you can still remember clearly is not sexy, or interesting (not Scoppettone’s fault, mind you. At the time it was really cutting edge).
Lesfic writing has progressed in all those years and I can’t help but think, if I had read this back in the day, long before a Micky Knight or a Lillian Byrd I would have probably liked it. As it stands I can only give 3 stars.
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Themes: fallback Friday, 1990, New York, she’s got the modem virus, reading about 90s tech is quite boring, that little quirk the author had while describing time got old real fast, this took me ages to get back to, book did not age well.
3 Stars
The book is 29 years old and it shows. AIDS, bulletin boards, 2400 Baud modems, pay phones. The author gave a very detailed account of her sleuth Lauren and how she falls prey to the evil modem addiction (lol!). Turns out reading about old tech you can still remember clearly is not sexy, or interesting (not Scoppettone’s fault, mind you. At the time it was really cutting edge).
Lesfic writing has progressed in all those years and I can’t help but think, if I had read this back in the day, long before a Micky Knight or a Lillian Byrd I would have probably liked it. As it stands I can only give 3 stars.
f/f
Themes: fallback Friday, 1990, New York, she’s got the modem virus, reading about 90s tech is quite boring, that little quirk the author had while describing time got old real fast, this took me ages to get back to, book did not age well.
3 Stars
rdominick's review
5.0
This book is so much of a time and place, of a shift in the world, that it brings it all back to me in a rush. I can't separate it from the person I was then and the life I was having -- not better or worse than this life, just different. I originally bought this book on the other side of the US, in a tiny bookshop I wasn't sure I belonged in, a bookshop that's now gone like so many other things.
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