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'Ready Player Two' sequel novel to release this November
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There's a lot to dislike about the first book. One of the things that I'm surprised I don't see complained about more often on the gaming boards is how bullshit the games in it are. Cline is a guy that loves video games but never adsorbed any kind of good game design concepts. There's that movie karaoke game that sounds as fun as painting your house. Oasis is an MMO with a harsh death penalty and zero game balance, you can lose your character because you were on the wrong planet when some dweeb decided to try out his new Death Star he just got as a special quest reward. It's game design by a couple of grade schoolers.
It's not very well written and overstuffed with "remember this?? wink wink" references. That said, it's an entertaining read especially if you're in the sweet spot age group for 80s nostalgia.
I thought the movie was entertaining.
Oh no...I'm an 80s kid, but I REALLY hate 80s nostalgia. I don't need to be reminded of the past in a superficial way.
The idea i keep seeing repeated here that people don't like it are like literary snobs is just plain wrong.
I love genre fiction, thrillers, horror, sci fi and fantasy. I hated reading Hemmingway and Kerouac at uni. I love trashy page turners. But this book wasn't even a light fun read.
That said I was born in 88, so I was a 90s kid, the references weren't my childhood, so maybe that's what it comes down to.
I love genre fiction, thrillers, horror, sci fi and fantasy. I hated reading Hemmingway and Kerouac at uni. I love trashy page turners. But this book wasn't even a light fun read.
That said I was born in 88, so I was a 90s kid, the references weren't my childhood, so maybe that's what it comes down to.
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The protagonist of this book will spend 3 pages listing every AMV they ever watched from Naruto/Numb to Bionicle/Blow Me Away
He actually reviewed the first movie
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It's a big long wankfest of 80s nostalgia, but that's not the core issue. The core issue is that Wade and the characters within are rewarded with fame, power and riches for their mastery of video gaming and memorization of 80s pop culture instead of any sort of personal growth. Wade doesn't explicitly learn anything about himself or humanity. So it's a quest story where no maturation or character development really occurs. Things happen, pop culture is referenced, corporations are bad and obsessive geeks win for a life of obsessive geeking.
Plus casual racism and terrible character dialogue doesn't help.
There actually IS an anime trash equivalent of Ready Player One.
It's called Sword Art Online.
And despite it being terrible,
it's still not anyhwere near as bad as RPO.
Most of the thread is saying it's bad because of the endless references. But I'd certainly say blatant transphobia is a lot worse than "references":
Some other favorite quotes of mine:
Some other favorite quotes of mine:
Oh right, Transphobia on top of racism and sexism.
But you know, people hate it cause Era just love to hate things for no reason.
Same it was nothing great, but then again it wasn't completely horrible bottom of the barrel. I turned my brain off and enjoyed it for what it was. Then again I reading a lot of YA during the time, so I guess the most honest thing I can say it's near the bottom of the popular YA books, but not near the bottom of YA.
This is indeed a disturbing universe.
The fact that Spielberg co-signed this waste of oxygen's "vision"...
The fact that Spielberg co-signed this waste of oxygen's "vision"...
I read it so long ago and have only the vaguest memory
Alright, well, I didn't know any of this. I tend to not follow authors very closely at all unless I'm huge a huge fan of multiple works they've done. It gets exhausting otherwise.
But hey now I know and he can fuck right off.
That tweet is a quote from the book. By the main character. So if you read the book, you've seen that line before.
Welp, I guess I blocked it out and/or I've grown and changed since then.
Oh hell the fuck NO.
Ready Player One was easily the worst fucking drivel I've ever read. No fucking way I'll ever touch this book, but I'm sure all the incels and gamers will be quick to pick it up.
Ready Player One was easily the worst fucking drivel I've ever read. No fucking way I'll ever touch this book, but I'm sure all the incels and gamers will be quick to pick it up.
Credit where it's due, there were like 1 or 2 interesting parts of the book, but the majority of it was fucking dog shitto, imo
Top three for me, at any rate. Terry Goodkind gives Cline a run for his money in terms of "dogshit but with words"
Curious if Cline can top himself, but since I'm not getting a review copy of this one, I'll probably just never read it.
One of my favorite authors is Wesley Chu, whose Time Salvager series is being adapted by Michael Bay. RPO is still fucking garbage.
The passive aggressive defensiveness is super weird. When you start typing a serious "Era does this" post, you already know you're gonna deliver an insightful gem.
I don't hate the first book so much as I had forgotten its existence tbh.
I don't hate the first book so much as I had forgotten its existence tbh.
I like how on the same page that people point out the book's casual sexism, racism, and transphobia, you waltz in with this take.
Maybe people take issue with how the book reflects the world view of a mediocre man-child who has no self-awareness whatsoever. Maybe it's frustrating seeing reflections of this man's vapidness elevated and praised and made into a movie.
That ain't elitism. That's just reading beneath the narrative's surface, which is thinner than the pages it's printed on.
OF COURSE era hates this FANTASTIC book by real life GENIUS ernest goes to camp
I read the book multiple time. It's garbage but admittedly it's kind of fun. I think there's cool ideas in there scattered across, and a lot of the stuff taking place outside of the Oasis has the potential to be interesting. Wade's home getting bombed and going on the run, and ending up infiltrating the big evil corporation was at least kind of neat.
It's just so bogged down with the endless amount of references to every bit of a very white, surface-level 80s nostalgia that anything interesting that could be said gets drowned out and quickly tossed aside.
At first I kind of chalked it up to "okay, this novel is told in the first person by what is obviously a self-insert in a world where pop culture knowledge had some kind of value, so this character that lives this way, of course they are going to describe everything like this because it's all they know" and then I read like a chapter of Armada and instantly realized that no, it's just really bad writing.
Again though, parts of it have the makings of something interesting, but the bad writing really hampers it. Still haven't seen the movie, no real interest in it.
I'd love to see someone else write a similar novel but the final big bad at the end is just the protagonist of Ready Player One.
It's just so bogged down with the endless amount of references to every bit of a very white, surface-level 80s nostalgia that anything interesting that could be said gets drowned out and quickly tossed aside.
At first I kind of chalked it up to "okay, this novel is told in the first person by what is obviously a self-insert in a world where pop culture knowledge had some kind of value, so this character that lives this way, of course they are going to describe everything like this because it's all they know" and then I read like a chapter of Armada and instantly realized that no, it's just really bad writing.
Again though, parts of it have the makings of something interesting, but the bad writing really hampers it. Still haven't seen the movie, no real interest in it.
I'd love to see someone else write a similar novel but the final big bad at the end is just the protagonist of Ready Player One.
Look, if we're gonna badmouth the Ernestverse, we'll have to take it outside.
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Maybe it depends on the language / translation you've read the book in. I've read the german version and afaik the book was mostly met with positivity here. Only glanced through the english version once. Haven't read the french version myself but friends also told me that the book was usually praised there as well.
Not to derail too much on this, but please tell me there was no milkshake duck shit going on with Jim Varney
Kinda late for this isn't it? I saw someone else already started it
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Excerpts from My Upcoming Novel, Ready Player Two: Girl Stuff
“Wow, Felicity,” he said. My Internet name was Felicity, after the coolest American girl doll. “I never met someone who knew so much about Harry/Dr...
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no real dirt on jim i dont think, not unless sommit pops up later
also look at this pic, mmmmm
I agree with your thoughts on Ready Player One, it's not well written at all, and overall pretty dumb, but I enjoyed it when I read it (granted, I think I was in early high school at the time) and there's nothing wrong with some dumb, silly fun.
Armada is just...on a whole other level. There is close to nothing redeeming about it on a technical or story level. Honestly, I would suggest not even bothering with it. It's not bad in a fun way. It's just bad in a bad way.
There is a certain scene in it that I will never forget and I can't imagine will ever be topped in my list of Dumbest Things I've Ever Read
lol this is greatKinda late for this isn't it? I saw someone else already started it
Excerpts from My Upcoming Novel, Ready Player Two: Girl Stuff
“Wow, Felicity,” he said. My Internet name was Felicity, after the coolest American girl doll. “I never met someone who knew so much about Harry/Dr...