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Ready Player Two has breached containment and is looking for the little man in the canoe
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If you didn't know, that does make you ignorant. That's the definition.
User Warned: Thread Whining
Oh look another thread where posters get to complain and dog pile about Ready Player One /Two.
I always find it weird when people step up to defend transphobic media on this forum.
Oh look another thread where the RP1 defense force complains that people unfairly bash on the book without offering any defense beyond "I liked it."
This is literally exactly what you'd expect a RPO sequel to be, which is the meanest thing I can say about these quotes.
What really gets me about RPO is that i read it and thought it was ok, but whenever i read excerpts now i cringe myself out of existence.
It really puts my taste into question
It really puts my taste into question
I read the twitter thread(s) in the OP and now I don't know how to feel.
Well whatever I was feeling earlier, now it's so much worse.
Well whatever I was feeling earlier, now it's so much worse.
Yep
Same here. It made for a pretty decent audiobook. Sometimes you just want a silly story that is easy to follow.
Ready Player One isn't high lit, but it certainly isn't any worse than 98% of wrestling, super hero fiction, anime, and a dozen other forms of brain candy that people enjoy on this forum.
You folks who listen to the audio book versions are the real MVPs. I've no evidence to back this but I'd guess the writing is on a middle school comprehension level, at best. Pretty sure I breezed through the first book in a couple of days.
It's garbage fanfic and always has been. It's the literary equivalent of 10 year old you taking your GI Joes and lining them up on your bedroom floor vs your Transformers.
Well, until it gets to the 13 year old you part and it's all about high-tech yanking it.
It's garbage fanfic and always has been. It's the literary equivalent of 10 year old you taking your GI Joes and lining them up on your bedroom floor vs your Transformers.
Well, until it gets to the 13 year old you part and it's all about high-tech yanking it.
Oh look someone complains I'm part of the RP1 defense force just because I don't feel the need to hate on it. BTW I have yet to make it through the first book, not really my bag.
This is a book that seems like it was made to be read through posts on Twitter. This is hilarious
"Knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"
Knocking "a few" protonS off the old HYDROGEN atom
GODDAMMIT
you think ernest cline has ever read or watched anything nonfiction in his entire life?
Wow, those excerpts are really terrible. Never was interested in anything related to this, was the original this hamfisted?
Ehhh, RPO is definitely up there, especially as a novel. But sure, I also enjoy some things that are garbage but I have no issue admitting that they're garbage.
As a person who watched the film and never read the book, if a sequal to the film happens, Spielberg and his crew will need to do a lot of edits/cuts.
I enjoyed all 3 cars mentioned;
A Delorean + Pontiac Firebird Trans Am + Cadillac Mix is a gulity pleasure I would not mind seeing.
Like wtf? From an anime perspective yeah this is a twist/trope used a lot but this sounds a lot like SOA S1 but just not good. Also when you think about it...isn't that the hero's journey in some films just flipped for a villian perspective? O.o
I enjoyed all 3 cars mentioned;
A Delorean + Pontiac Firebird Trans Am + Cadillac Mix is a gulity pleasure I would not mind seeing.
Like wtf? From an anime perspective yeah this is a twist/trope used a lot but this sounds a lot like SOA S1 but just not good. Also when you think about it...isn't that the hero's journey in some films just flipped for a villian perspective? O.o
Ehhh, RPO is definitely up there, especially as a novel. But sure, I also enjoy some things that are garbage but I have no issue admitting that they're garbage.
Oh, the book is super dumb. Just think it gets dunked on more than it should in comparison to the rest of the media on here. :)
So, have you ever been talking amongst a group of people and referenced a piece of fiction, only to have nobody around you get the reference? And then you laboriously explain the context of the reference, having to clumsily truncate a lot of it, because you've already derailed the conversation? And when you're done, people nod politely, maybe force a chuckle, but you've now killed the mood and realize that making a reference is pointless unless someone gets it or it can stand on its own?
That's this entire book, except we already get the fucking references, but they're being explained anyway.
That's this entire book, except we already get the fucking references, but they're being explained anyway.
The first film was fun, not read the book though. Are all the references laboriously explained as they are here?
Reminds me of that Steig Larson book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (aka one of the worst books I've ever read, shit prose, shit story and I'd already guessed the 'twist' after the first chapter) where at one point he just lists the specs of someone's computer, copy/paste direct from the manufacturers.
Reminds me of that Steig Larson book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (aka one of the worst books I've ever read, shit prose, shit story and I'd already guessed the 'twist' after the first chapter) where at one point he just lists the specs of someone's computer, copy/paste direct from the manufacturers.
honestly I hope there is a study somewhere on these books as checkmark-based media consumption. its so disgusting and so superficial and hollow. and yet, it rings a cord with so many people. my guess is that late stage capitalism really broke peoples brains to a level where you shop for media experinces without actually going trough them.
I think it's the drive by thread whining... about a book you apparently haven't finished or particularly liked?
I'll probably listen to the second one when it is free.
I finished the first one but it kinda lost me at the bit (too paraphrase)
"Oh my God you almost died when those thousands of other people died including everyone you knew but us"
"But luckily I didn't. Ok I think the next Mcguffin is likely located in ....."
I finished the first one but it kinda lost me at the bit (too paraphrase)
"Oh my God you almost died when those thousands of other people died including everyone you knew but us"
"But luckily I didn't. Ok I think the next Mcguffin is likely located in ....."
I'm pretty sure these books are meant for kids with a passing interest in "80s culture" that don't know where else to look
ernie's just giving the *aesthetic* kids some stuff to google
one of this dude's greatest strengths is that he knows he's an idiot
I really can't agree with this. Even on your wrestling comment. In wrestling you don't have New Day stopping their match to look into the camera taking 5 minutes to explain exactly what the Final Fantasy fanfare is after Xavier Woods played it on his trombone, then moving on to reference Dragon Ball Z a couple minutes later, repeating the pattern over the course of a 10 hour match. Or a comic book film where the protagonist stops to explain to the audience every single Easter egg in the movie in great detail.
Cline was born in Ashland, Ohio. I used to live there, consuming nothing but nerd media and writing hack novels about it makes a lot more sense if you've been stuck there for any part of life.
it feels super performative, less like "i understand now sorry" and more "see look stop sending me hate mail"
of course EVERYTHING feels performative in this so who knows.
