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CRON
05/13/23 5:30:22 PM
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The premise makes absolutely no sense. It's a semi-dystopian future where everybody spends their time in a sophisticated virtual reality existence yet only geek-related pop culture from decades before the story's set is relevant.

The book is literally just the author listing random intellectual property from the 80s he likes.

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s0nicfan
05/13/23 5:31:54 PM
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It's a YA book. They're not generally know for sophisticated plot or writing. Are you gonna get controversial and say Twilight isn't well structured next?

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RchHomieQuanChi
05/13/23 5:32:01 PM
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Tbf, isn't the whole point of Ready Player One that the guy that created the virtual reality is overly obsessed with the past, including pop-culture from the 80s and 90s?

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ArsGoetia
05/13/23 5:32:15 PM
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ok
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Murphiroth
05/13/23 5:33:50 PM
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Got any other incredibly cold takes to parrot?
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HylianFox
05/13/23 5:34:34 PM
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CRON posted...
The book is literally just the author listing random intellectual property from the 80s he likes.

"Let's list pop culture stuff that we like, that'd make a great book!" -Mike Nelson, RiffTrax

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ToadallyAwesome
05/13/23 5:37:58 PM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
Tbf, isn't the whole point of Ready Player One that the guy that created the virtual reality is overly obsessed with the past, including pop-culture from the 80s and 90s?

And knowing more about it is the key to winning a huge prize. It makes somewhat sense but its not something everyone does.

By the time the book begins the vast majority of people had long given up trying to find the Egg

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Jagr_68
05/13/23 5:38:12 PM
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Uhhh yeah?

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Trickfinger
05/13/23 5:38:38 PM
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ArsGoetia posted...
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Shadowplay
05/15/23 9:25:07 AM
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When you read about the author, it's blatantly obvious that he's a manchild who has no depth whatsoever.

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ArsGoetia
05/15/23 9:26:49 AM
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Shadowplay posted...
When you read about the author, it's blatantly obvious that he's a manchild who has no depth whatsoever.

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radical_rhino
05/15/23 9:27:19 AM
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Its still insane to me that Spielberg adapted this book. And its just a generic cgi-fest crappy movie, filled with nonstop references to geek culture that Spielberg probably doesnt understand.

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PowerOats
05/15/23 9:29:35 AM
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The race is cool though.
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Gobstoppers12
05/15/23 9:30:16 AM
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radical_rhino posted...
filled with nonstop references to geek culture that Spielberg probably doesnt understand.
...Spielberg created some of that geek culture

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DarkBuster22904
05/15/23 9:31:18 AM
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I actually think it's an interesting concept, if executed poorly.

Halliday offers an insane incentive, and in so doing com0letely changes the global zeitgeist. He capitalizes of Nostalgia Culture so hard that he gets the entire planet nostalgic for someone ELSE'S nostalgia. Just l8ke the world they're in is fake, so too are their feelings, attachments, and personalities, as they all end up manufactured by what this Willily Wonka figure liked; and yet they all consider that to be "freedom." There's an infinite virtual world where anyone can do or make anything they want, and yet everybody just remakes stuff from the 80s because they think that's what they should do.

There's definitely interesting themes and messages to be found, there.
Too bad Cline isn't nearly talented enough to do them justice.

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EmilyTheCEman
05/15/23 9:43:09 AM
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Ill never forget when my friend dragged me to the movie saying it was the most amazing book ever.

  1. The fact that the girl in real life ended up being basically hot with just like a birthmark on her eye. WOW that truly sends the message of loving someone for their personality!
  2. A fanboy can always spot a hater. was an actual line said in an actual movie and it was meant to sound cool.

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specialkid8
05/15/23 9:46:24 AM
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radical_rhino posted...
Its still insane to me that Spielberg adapted this book. And its just a generic cgi-fest crappy movie, filled with nonstop references to geek culture that Spielberg probably doesnt understand.

I doubt Spielberg actually directed much of the movie. Especially with how much is just CGI. They probably gave him a truck load of cash to put his name on it and he said "sure, why not" then passed most of it off to the second unit.

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Bad_Mojo
05/15/23 9:47:48 AM
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I enjoyed them both

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cjsdowg
05/15/23 9:48:05 AM
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The ending pissed me off. Limiting time in the game. Billy can't walk in real life, he gets to feel like he is walking in the game. Lets take that way on some random day I picked up. John, really feels like she should be named Emily but he family is not supportive. She can be Emily in the game...oh sorry not on Wednesday.

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Robot2600
05/15/23 9:50:36 AM
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yea that movie fucking sucks.

fine to watch once, would not re-watch.

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greenjeans
05/15/23 10:13:28 AM
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Book - good

Movie - awful
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jumi
05/15/23 10:23:52 AM
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cjsdowg posted...
The ending pissed me off. Limiting time in the game. Billy can't walk in real life, he gets to feel like he is walking in the game. Lets take that way on some random day I picked up. John, really feels like she should be named Emily but he family is not supportive. She can be Emily in the game...oh sorry not on Wednesday.

Or you work like a dog in a shit job you hate, but those are your only days off. Sorry, wage slave! Cucked again by Big Business!

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Kami_no_Kami
05/15/23 10:23:56 AM
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Does the book have the race scene where nobody had ever thought to drive backwards or the action scenes where everyone could just take off their VR headsets and be fine?
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Questionmarktarius
05/15/23 10:32:45 AM
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mario2000
05/15/23 11:22:02 AM
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References Ergo Story

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kirbymuncher
05/15/23 12:11:22 PM
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Kami_no_Kami posted...
Does the book have the race scene where nobody had ever thought to drive backwards or the action scenes where everyone could just take off their VR headsets and be fine?
I don't remember either of these in the book

honestly I'm a little curious what the movie actually is... not enough to watch it, but I read the book far before the movie was even a thing and it honestly just felt like a sorta cheesy nostalgia friendly action story. Nothing groundbreaking but it has a coherent plot, a somewhat interesting world, and was just generally fun to read even if it's not some sort of literary masterpiece. And then after the movie came out all of a sudden everyone is acting like it's the worst thing ever and that it's nothing more than a list of every piece of media released from 1980-2000

very weird feeling

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Powdered_Toast
05/15/23 2:50:43 PM
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So apparently the second book starts with the main character overhearing people talking shit about him and his friends, so he goes all "nothin personnel, kid" and pulls out his uberhax katana and kills them in a non PVP area because he can do what he wants. It also pretty much bankrupts them because of how the economy works. Now you might be thinking, "wow, when he became the richest, most powerful man in the world he became a real asshole," but the author is actually trying to make you think he's the coolest guy ever.

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Ruvan22
05/15/23 3:46:59 PM
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kirbymuncher posted...
I don't remember either of these in the book

honestly I'm a little curious what the movie actually is... not enough to watch it, but I read the book far before the movie was even a thing and it honestly just felt like a sorta cheesy nostalgia friendly action story. Nothing groundbreaking but it has a coherent plot, a somewhat interesting world, and was just generally fun to read even if it's not some sort of literary masterpiece. And then after the movie came out all of a sudden everyone is acting like it's the worst thing ever and that it's nothing more than a list of every piece of media released from 1980-2000

very weird feeling

I *thought* the movie ended with a different theme/message than the book... only saw the movie though so going very much off second hand knowledge
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Kajagogo
05/15/23 3:49:53 PM
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I'm in the middle of reading Rabbits by Terry Miles. It's sort of similar, and it's pretty good so far.

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RuneterranSnap
05/15/23 3:52:45 PM
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Fucking thank you, the movie was so terribly written and structured and used nostalgia to try and hide its flaws.

s0nicfan posted...
It's a YA book. They're not generally know for sophisticated plot or writing. Are you gonna get controversial and say Twilight isn't well structured next?
YA isn't a genre, RPO isn't YA, and there's a TON of YA with great writing
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Airhammy
05/15/23 3:52:56 PM
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*shrug* I liked the movie. Never read the book.

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RuneterranSnap
05/15/23 3:53:13 PM
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greenjeans posted...
Book - good

Movie - awful
Other way around imo
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A_Good_Boy
05/15/23 3:58:30 PM
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Kami_no_Kami posted...
Does the book have the race scene where nobody had ever thought to drive backwards or the action scenes where everyone could just take off their VR headsets and be fine?
No that's not in the book. The book at least does a decent job of making the vr world seem like an actual game. The movie depicts a game as imagined by an octogenarian that's only ever heard of kids talking about them.

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noisetank
05/15/23 3:58:42 PM
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i prefer his poetry:

All the porn Ive come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males
Men who like their women stupid and submissive
Men who can only get it up
for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos
with gargantuan breasts and a three word vocabulary
Adult films are populated with these collagen-injected, liposuctioned women
Many of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilation
in an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.
These arent real women.
Theyre objects.
And these movies arent erotic.
Theyre pathetic.
These vacuum-headed fuck bunnies dont turn me on.
They disgust me.

The girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses....
Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian!
Oh yes.
First I want to copy her Trig homework,
and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her
for hours and hours
until she reluctantly asks if we can stop
because she doesnt want to miss Battlestar Galactica.
[...] But do you ever see that kind of woman
in a contemporary adult film? No!

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RuneterranSnap
05/15/23 3:58:52 PM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
Tbf, isn't the whole point of Ready Player One that the guy that created the virtual reality is overly obsessed with the past, including pop-culture from the 80s and 90s?
And that's fine. There's lots of great examples of nostalgia-bait. I even think the movie is good - the story still sucks, but everything is so well done, it's at least enjoyable.

I remember in RPO, he had to play a perfect game of Pac-Man, and with no explanation of how he's that good, the book proceeds to describe him doing it in the most boring way possible, literally just telling us he does this amazing thing.

There's another instance later where after a battle, they discover a door they have to get in is hovering above a creator(like something glitching in a game) and they can't reach it! But it's ok, because the character immediately after finds a pair of rocket boots that have never been referenced before, and are never referenced again.

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Sheiky-Baby
05/15/23 4:11:33 PM
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Once Upon A Time in the West was literally by a director that used every scene, and lines he liked from his favorite Western films of the past. Tarantino made a career out of making something he liked from the 70's, and the 80's as well like Kill Bill.

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royic
05/15/23 4:14:57 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
It's a YA book. They're not generally know for sophisticated plot or writing. Are you gonna get controversial and say Twilight isn't well structured next?

There's tons of YA content with a higher bar than Twilight that has been rewarded for it. Avatar TLA etc. Don't think we should acquiesce to the idea of kids not recognizing or deserving good stories.

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s0nicfan
05/15/23 4:25:00 PM
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royic posted...
There's tons of YA content with a higher bar than Twilight that has been rewarded for it. Avatar TLA etc. Don't think we should acquiesce to the idea of kids not recognizing or deserving good stories.

That's a fair point, and they absolutely deserve well written stories. I guess my point was more that a well written YA story is more of an exception than the rule, so finding a YA book dumb is a bit like digging into the $5 movie bin at Wal-Mart and then being surprised that the movie is mediocre.

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RuneterranSnap
05/15/23 4:27:17 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
I guess my point was more that a well written YA story is more of an exception than the rule
Again, this is completely false, YA is no worse writing-wise than literature in general. It's literally just a marketing tool and has nothing to do with quality or content.
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bsp77
05/15/23 4:28:28 PM
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First of all...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...
Tbf, isn't the whole point of Ready Player One that the guy that created the virtual reality is overly obsessed with the past, including pop-culture from the 80s and 90s?
So the main complaint isn't really that valid.

But more importantly, has TC ever said anything positive? Don't act negative all the time.

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royic
05/15/23 4:29:00 PM
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TBH I wasn't aware ready player one was marketed as YA. Seemed to mostly be a hit with 15-30 year old men I thought.

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bsp77
05/15/23 4:31:01 PM
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royic posted...
TBH I wasn't aware ready player one was marketed as YA. Seemed to mostly be a hit with 15-30 year old men I thought.
I don't feel like it ever was treated as YA. Sure, it is the equivalent of PG-13, but that doesn't make it YA.

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RuneterranSnap
05/15/23 4:31:50 PM
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bsp77 posted...
I don't feel like it ever was treated as YA. Sure, it is the equivalent of PG-13, but that doesn't make it YA.
It wasn't, and a quick glance at Wiki makes no mention of it.
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NeoShadowhen
05/15/23 4:33:16 PM
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I always post this when this comes up. She nails it.

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Prismsblade
05/15/23 4:47:20 PM
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Powdered_Toast posted...
So apparently the second book starts with the main character overhearing people talking shit about him and his friends, so he goes all "nothin personnel, kid" and pulls out his uberhax katana and kills them in a non PVP area because he can do what he wants. It also pretty much bankrupts them because of how the economy works. Now you might be thinking, "wow, when he became the richest, most powerful man in the world he became a real asshole," but the author is actually trying to make you think he's the coolest guy ever.
Losing literally everything on death is a pretty steep punishment for death. Idk why anyone would risk doing literally anything that could get them killed.

Especially going anywhere near pvp zones.

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MICHALECOLE
05/15/23 4:49:40 PM
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Idk, I thought it was fun
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