Ready Player One

>>64885860
kill yourself

>>64885932
I had to be careful listening to the audiobook while working. I kept yelling "YES" and fistbumping and freaking people out, lol

>>64885932
The fuck is this

>>64885932
Hoo boy.

The book is fun, but to make a film out of it you'd have to drastically reduce the references, and Spielberg's doing his part by cutting out all references to his movies.

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>Steve trying to out-Reddit Based Ridley

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>>64886086
An excerpt from OP's favorite book

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>Ready Player One
>Favorite book

>>64886086
A page from Ready Player One. The 80's references, if you didn't realize, are almost half the book, this just happened to be one of the worst examples of that.

Parz1val (or whatever the fuck his name was) going into Chicago was actually pretty cool because it gave some insight into how badly the world had gotten fucked up since the vague apocalypse.

>>64885860
>my favorite book

it is one of the worst things i've ever tried to read. one stupid reference after another and not an interesting character in sight.

>>64886146
Ah yes, that final battle. Has the potential to be every nerd's wet dream realized if Spielberg pulls it off.

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>>64886309
Can Spielberg pull this off?

>>64885860
Great book, hope they don't fuck up the movie.

>>64886278
>one stupid reference after another and not an interesting character in sight.
This. This so fucking much. What a terrible book. It's the literary equivalent of Big Bang Theory, just mentioning names and doing jackshit without them. I'll never understand how this dreck passes as good.

TFW if Galaxy Quest came out today idiots claiming TBBT and RPO are good would lose their minds.

>>64885860
b8

>>64885860
>>64885932
>>64886027
>>64886088
>>64886309
>>64886509
>>64886694
LEAVE THIS FUCKING BOARD, AND GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM. THIS IS /TV/ NOT /AUTISM/

>>64886814
>stop liking things I don't like

>>64886509
Yeah, I mentioned that earlier. Honestly, all the shit about him moving to Chicago could be cut down to him coming into the coty, getting the apartment, then a time card followed by the future repo men coming in and fucking his shit up.

>>64886278
>doesn't finish the book, calls it shit.

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>>64886882
>>64886814
>implying I like this shitpile and I didn't rage-read it

>>64886882
yeah exactly, it's disgusting to see how there are people in our society who can enjoy this shit. It is objectively bad.

>>64886985
>168
MAN DID THEY FUCK UP

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>>64886278
> i hate things because they are popular

>>64886985
>I read books I hate for the shitposting
>autism

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>>64886278
Then you missed the most in-depth characterization in the whole book! lol

>>64886983
Not him, but time is valuable and you don't have to be a genius to realize from the first pages that it's just bad literature.

>Constant references to pop culture just for fuck's sake
>Boring characters
>Cliché plot

He dodged a bullet.

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Will he be in the lead role?

>my favorite book
It's okay, OP. Reading isn't for everyone. You don't have to force yourself to read children's books to seem adult. Many adults simply enjoy other media instead.

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>>64886985
>distinctly
>almost
>To my surprise
>To my eyes
>Pretty love interest who's nerdy and shy and has low confidence because she has one minor physical flaw.

>>64887150
>reading is hard
>it took me two days to read it
>muh time

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>>64887193
No, he's Vice President of the Internet

>>64887193
Doing his cringey Japanese impression like in the audiobook?

>>64887279
>Wasting even a single hour on this piece of shit with so much things to do in life.

If you like shit that's ok, but saying this book is anywhere near a worthwhile read is just crazy.

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>>64887244
You don't seem aware of how fat 168 pounds is

Amy Schumer is 165

>>64887287
Fucking WHY

>>64887365
Sorry reading takes away from Internet porno wacky time for you.

>>64887365
>again, stop liking what I don't like

>>64887427
You just don't get it. Reading bad shit takes away time from doing better things like getting raped in the ass or yes, Internet porno wacky time.

>>64887472
More like, calling a spade a spade.

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>>64887123

>You don't like shit?
>Must be contrarian lol

>>64887552
>I don't like it, no one can like it

>>64887614
>I'm not able to like shit and say so. Instead I claim it's not shit. I'm so smart.

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Complete it.

>>64887678
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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>>64887773
This guy knows

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>>64887678

>>64885860
Enjoyed the book, not sure how they will pull off parts of it though.

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>>64888010
Probably according to tested forumlas since it's just cashing in on a popular YA novel and fans will sperg out (read: give them free publicity) for even the slightest breaks from source material, all while seeing it twice themselves.

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>tfw i bought a copy of this book due to popularity and ecstatic reviews from friends
>tfw every single page was infuriating and i only made it halfway through
>tfw i felt broken and "wrong" for not being able to enjoy it and had to leave my rage bottled up until seeing this thread

Thank you /tv/ for providing me a safe space

>>64888246
You're welcome, it's perfectly fine to recognize a bad book for what it is.

>>64888246
>autism

>The biggest flaw is that the 80s references aren't fun. They aren't interesting. They don't make any commentary or provide insight on the 80s. They're just sort of... there. This is the same problem I have with Family Guy and its endless 80s references. They don't actually amount to anything other than: "Hey everybody, remember the 80s? Yeah - they totally happened!" But it's even worse in RPO, because every reference is provided with an explanation. This misses the point of cultural references, which, in a way, are like jokes, in that if you have to explain them, the purpose of telling them has failed. Also, who are the explanations for, anyway? People who grew up in the 80s or are hip to 80s pop culture don't need them, and those who aren't are unlikely to be reading an 80s nostalgia piece in the first place.

>Also, Cline has no discriminating taste even in 80s culture. Thus, the references come across less as a bunch of hip references from someone who loves good pop culture than just a dump of a list of stuff that happened in the 80s. The disquisition on Family Ties is a good example. I watched that show with my dad back in the 80s, too, and I remember it well. It sucked then, it sucks now, and it will continue to suck in the 2040s. It was unfunny, maudlin dreck then, and now it doesn't even have any kitsch value. Every decade has stuff that's worth remembering and stuff that's worth forgetting in it. This book just seems to take everything equally, no matter where on that scale it lies. It comes off, as one reviewer on Amazon said, like reading a Wikipedia page on the 80s.

>There's also a weird tone of arrogant mean-spiritedness to this book. It's a little hard to describe, but it reeks of that attitude you get at a comics shop if you say that you really don't know that much about Green Lantern or that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was actually a pretty okay movie. The author's taking occasional breaks to beat you over the head with his sociopolitical views doesn't help, either. The whole "geekier than thou" thing just doesn't work for me. It definitely keeps the book from being as "fun" as a lot of people have claimed.

>And yeah, the writing is clunky and artless. It's of the "This happened, then that happened, then this happened, then that happened" style. The characters are flat and undistinctive, and have more than a whiff of Mary Sueism to some of them. The bad guys are generically bad, mostly because they - horror of horrors - want to run a business at a profit, which reeks of pure evil to those who have the internet generation's "everything ought to be free" sense of entitlement.

>>64888413
>not understanding that the 80s references were important to winning the contest

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>>64887678

>>64888512
>Not understanding why the reviewer criticizes it.

Read it again.

>>64888589
For the same audience I take.

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Here's Ernest Cline

Wearing an Atari shirt

in his DeLorean

with GRRM

>>64888592
>guy creates online world
>guy giving away online world through contest, consisting of puzzles involving his interest in 80s pop culture
>reading is hard

>>64888691
It surely is: after many replies pointing out what the problem is you still don't get what some are pointing out.

>>64888646
He looks like Phil Fish. No surprise his book is crap.

>>64885860
this book is the closest thing to reddit i've ever read

it's garbage

>>64888512
>>64888691
>be this guy: >>64888646
>write a contrived story in which it makes sense to write a book composed entirely of 80s references
>this is okay
Stick to GIFs. Any other medium is probably beyond you.

>>64888512
>>64888691
I don't understand. You do realize that the whole premise of the story (an 80s trivia themed ARG) was created by the author and is thus the root of the problem? He could have written something that wasn't completely stupid instead.

>>64888517
holy shit that is bad writing

So is this a manchild book about video games or what is it? I'm not reading it.

>>64888691
There's a difference between something making sense from an in-story perspective and something making sense from a writing/reading stand point.

further proof millennials are morons

>>64888891
That's exactly what it is, yes.

>>64888646
The world's most successful neckbeard

How was Fanboys by the way? Any good?

>>64888891
imagine the big bang theory, except 80's references instead and a masturbatory, fedorariffic self insert main character

>>64888891
I have no idea who this book's audience is. You have to be 30+ to get even a fraction of the pop references, but it's written at a first grade level.

>>64888936

Oh.

>>64889006
>imagine the big bang theory

No.

>>64888646
What's his girlfriend look like?

>>64888891
You forgot to add

>badly written
>boring characters

Also, this part made me laugh so hard:>>64887146

>>64888891
Imagine Charlie and the Chocolate Factory set in an MMORPG in a dystopian future where almost all human interaction is online in aforementioned MMORPG. Except replace any interesting aspects with references to the 80's and "geeky" circlejerking.

>>64889024
30+ year-old manchildren who never mastered reading adult literature and teenagers born in the wrong generation.

>>64888891
Think Willy Wonka mixed with Lord Of The Rings in a virtual world after the apocalypse, then take anything that might be enjoyable about that premise and cover it with references to 80's pop culture.

I enjoyed reading it, but I'm a colossal faggot who likes trash literature. (Inherent Vice, House Of Leaves, Fight Club, etc.)

>>64886027
Please get off this website immediately.

>>64889024

From the excerpts and answers y'all have given I'm going to say the audience is the same people that read and still like Harry Potter (or like it at all, honestly) into their adult years and say it's "literature."

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>>64889145

>>64889175
Did you also read his book Armada?

>>64889248
I didn't. It looked fascinating, but I've heard that it's a trash book that would make for an excellent movie.

I've also heard that it's basically just The Last Starfighter.

>>64889175
>but I'm a colossal faggot who likes trash literature. (Inherent Vice, House Of Leaves, Fight Club, etc.)

Still, nowhere as bad as Ready Player One. Try reading something else though.

>>64889145
>>64889203
>Philip K. Dick novels get lower scores than "XD SO NERDY" trash
Disgusting.

>>64889298
That's what it sounds like. But I will probably read it because I like shitty books.

>>64889145
>>64889203
>critical fanbase with capability of discerning varying levels of quality giving ratings in the 3-5 range
>vs underaged fanbase who just go "video game references in a NOVEL! it's a masterpiece! 5 stars"

>>64889175
>(Inherent Vice, House Of Leaves, Fight Club, etc.)
All of those are much better than Ready Player One.

>>64889369
Like one of the faggots that liked RPO already said: reading is indeed hard. No surprise here.

>>64885860
I thought is was a fun read. Was it a great piece of literature? Most certainly not. Was it entertaining while I flew across the country on a business trip? Yes.

>>64889501
too bad your plane didnt crash

>>64889528
with no survivors.

>>64889528
>hurr durr kill yourself meme
Sometimes it's a nice break to read something that is mindless fun.

>>64889528
too bad your mom didn't swallow you

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>>64889193
Perhaps the die was cast when Cline accepted the idea of Spielberg directing the film; he made sure the story would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody; just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for his book. Ready Player One might portray a fresh dystopian setting (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Philip K. Dick series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>But at least the book is ggood though!
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character did something, the author wrote a meaningless, audience-pandering reference to the 1980s.

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time a pop culture reference appeared. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Cline's mind is so governed by "geek culture" and retro nostalgia that he has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Ready Player One by the same Andy Weir. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Ready Player One at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read The Martian." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Ready Player One" you are, in fact, trained to read The Martian.

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I just read this and I spent the entire book repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.

I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for the last 30 pages it was so painful.

>Ayy 80s references lmao
If you liked it you're in the wrong place

>>64889412
Yeah but they're a pretty good demonstration of my taste in literature.

Some other favorites: John Dies At The End, The Disaster Artist, Redshirts, The Last Policeman.

I just read trash. Maybe slightly elevated trash, but nothing that really challenges the mind. I just like fun stories with interesting adventures and characters. I wanna be comfy when I read.

My wife's son loves this book

>>64889501
You embody everything that is wrong with the world.

>>64889773
>adapting the Harry Potter pasta to RPO

Points for effort, but it's still a shit list.

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Another excerpt.

>>64889980
>Hideo Kojima, or as he's known around my crib, God
WHAT THE FUCK WAS PINECONE THINKING

Also nice subtle troll

>>64889889
>I care about what others read

>>64889316
Rec some books then?

>>64890142
And you care about what others watch, otherwise you wouldn't be on a Mandarin shadow puppet board discussing film

>>64890197
>caring this much

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>>64889980
Yet another excerpt.

>>64886027
people like this exist

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>>64890249

more like Reddit Player One amiright

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>>64890257
jesus christ

>>64890188
Last one I read was The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato. Summary sounds like hipster bait but it's a really good book about love and obsession with a main character that would be posting here if he lived nowadays

>>64890667
I'll give it a go.

>>64890667
>my hipster book is better than your meme book

>Ready Player One

Nerdcore/Drivecore reddit flick

>>64890705
>my hipster book is better than your meme book
>Summary sounds like hipster bait but it's a really good book about love and obsession

Reading comprehension anon. It's a very short book and it's easy to read.

>>64889316
Inherent Vice and House of Leaves are great books, you faggot.

>>64890925
Both are better than Ready Player One, of course. I give you that, but Thomas Pynchon is not my cup of tea.

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>mfw /tv/ has reddit tier taste in books

kill your selves you actual fucking plebs

>>64891072
Books are literally an inferior art form to cinema in every way.

>>64891106
And here we... go.

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>>64891072
And yet /tv/ circle jerks all over this shit
>Reddit : The movie

>>64889203
To be fair MitHC is one of Dick's worst

>>64891072
What I wouldn't give to have taken that photo...

I'd probably end up getting savagely beaten, but it'd have been worth it.

>>64891412
Are you fucking retarded m8?

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First the martian and now this, great. Mediocre books getting a movie adaption as soon as the books go on sale.

>>64891323
>>Reddit : The movie
You're confusing Fury Road with Guardians of the Galaxy.

>>64891533
>I lived my teenage years through the 80's
>this is a 50 year old woman

>>64885932
>Likes the prequels
>Not Crystal Skull
Is Halliday a true patrician?

>>64885860
>Indian express
Poo in the loo

>>64888517

>This is the writing that makes money now because the prose in real literature is "too hard :("

I know that it's really always been like this but fuck

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>>64889501
It was terrible. Wil Wheaton was name dropped. Theres two agonizing pages of Monty Python being reenacted. Most of the concepts were done better in Otherland 15 years earlier.

>>64889175

Inherent Vice is shit? Since when?