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Important Elements In Life's Lottery By Kim Newman

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Life’s Lottery by Kim Newman is a mature choose-your-own-adventure novel grounded in its realistic, gritty portrayal, where the stakes are much higher than its children’s novel predecessors. Newman’s work stands out to me because of the unforeseeable threads of events that can emerge from what initially seem like early decisions. The author’s intention was to make some events “trivial and some momentous”, yet stated that many important elements in Keith’s later life are formed by deliberate childhood decisions. The impact Newman deliberately places upon childhood decisions seem to test how far those consequences will reverberate and shape Keith’s life down the road. How can passing or failing one test dramatically affect Keith’s later economic
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