I can't find a single bad review of this, anywhere

Where are you looking for reviews, friend?

That's funny, I've never seen a good review about it here.

>>7635198
Googling, I don't know any book review websites

I only ask because someone posted a page of the book, and it looked like, with zero hyperbole, the worst page of fiction I'd ever seen in my life, and I'm baffled as to how any human could even bear to read a whole book of it

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>>7635203
Found it

>>7635203
>>7635211

It's a sad world we live in my friend.

This is bait.

>>7635211
How long would it actually take to watch every episode of The Simpsons? I feel like I wouldn't be able to make it past the first season.

>>7635446
you just need to watch ten seasons, maybe eleven.

>>7635211
That is really bad.

>>7635437
You know whats really sad? His intended audience is people his age. He is 40.

https://youtu.be/gD9RIVnrn9Y?t=6m41s

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>>7635211
>“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.”
>― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

>>7635211
>>7635926
that isn't bad, actually. maybe the subject matter triggers you, but imo a pretty fun read

>>7635937
>imo a pretty fun read

Did you know that stuff that's bad can be pretty fun? You shouldn't be so insecure that you need to pretend everything bad you enjoy is some masterful stroke of genius

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Yes it is really that good

>>7635211
>the list goes on...: The Book

It's like a pleb version of Bolano's namedropping.

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>>7635926
INTO THE INQUISITION IT GOES

I have a deep bass voice and ladies love it. Yesterday I met with a private investigator to discuss the character of a close friend of mine who's job requires him to have different level clearances. In short, a background check. After our talk I could visibly see how smitten she was with my deep bass voice. For a brief moment the thought of asking her out for coffee chanced upon me, but I desperately had to go home and start with the Greeks.

>>7635446
i've watched the first 350 episodes multiple times.

>>7635937
Nope, this is bad prose. Plain and simple. Educate yourself or fuck off to a board where your stupidity will be less glaring.

I have had the misfortune of being forced to read it (friends and I have a 'book club' and some cunt suggested this). It is just about the least entertaining thing I have ever had to read. The only positive to this book is that it is a very fast read and you can get it over with in an afternoon.

>>7636056
holy shit #rekt #nosurvivors

>>7635211
Is this actually part of the book or is he listening stuff he did while writing the book? Either way it's shit.

>>7636025
>even this cocksmoker saw the ending coming a mile away

>>7636143
It's a page from the actual book

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I just purchased a copy of this shit for a dollar at my local goodwill.

I've only flipped through and read a few pages of it but every bit is just as awful as the passages that get posted here constantly.

>>7636165
Post some, post some!

>>7636165
Post the part near the end where he recites the entirety of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

>>7636165
Is that Mason and Dixon you've got open?
>>7635211
This passage isn't that bad compared to the rest of the quotes, especially >>7635926

>>7635211
This is the definition of info dump
Fuck me I thought this was just an interview of the guy

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1PrKBPlpscT

>>7636198
Is this the actual audiobook?

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>>7636185
Just a random page, literally every page is full of pop culture references.

>>7636189
>Is that Mason and Dixon you've got open?
Yeah

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>>7636209

>>7636209
This might as well be labeled as non fiction
It's just 80's pop culture info dumps

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>>7636212
Its like he crams as many references as possible in, Cowboy Bebop, Family Ties, Whatever.

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>>7636188
Here's the Monty Python stuff.

>>7636198
I'm picturing some neckbeard wearing a fedora speaking this shit with the smuggest fucking look on his face
I'm sure before writing this book this guy masturbated furiously to an imaginary crowd of people cheering at his obscure 80's references

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>>7636228

>>7636217
>he reached out and slipped me some skin
This is the type of writing people want to read.
I'm about to pass out lads

>>7636228
>>7636235
This fuck isn't even writing half his book. He's plagiarizing bits and pieces from pop culture and throwing them together.

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>>7636198
>Narrated by Wil Wheaton

It's like Spy Kids 3D with 80's references

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>I was a legend. Nay, a god.

>>7635902
If that is the case, can people half that age understand it fully as it was meant to be? Fact is, nope, brain anatomy changes over time. Its called growing up, to think at 20 you can understand something the same way a 40 year old does is normal pretentiousness but wrong. You don't, and the only way to find this out is to be 40, not kidding.

That said its an easy nostalgic read, it is not intended for people who were reading classical lit in their 20s really, but for the average male who as a fully grown adult picks up a book sometimes to read. Kids reading it are not going to have the same feelings as they have no nostalgia attached to it nor are they old enough for nostalgia to actually be a comfy feeling, anatomy will change that over time though.

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>>7636198

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These are 100% random pages, aside from the monty python shit. Every page is awful, I can't imagine reading 350 pages of this horseshit in a row.

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>>7636262

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>>7635902
>His intended audience is people his age. He is 40.
Would you say that it's the grown-up's Harry Potter?

I FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT

>>7636217
did Sam Hyde write this

I can't find any bad reviews of this book

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>>7635926
sorry kid, deal with it

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>>7636267

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>>7635926
Reading this as a fully fledged atheist myself, this annoyed me to no end.


It feels so cold and cynical. No wit or charm as other sort of anti-deist sections out there. I mean goddam it man, have some fuckin' brevity.

>>7636250
Part of the way through, I think it's interesting if you look at it like a dystopian-escapist setting, even if the 80's references are painful to sludge through.

>>7635926
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1EzgIjweked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5vmHjJ7LYE
This guy does "spoken word" poetry

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>>7636311
MAKE IT STOP

>>7636228
How the fuck can you even make a film out of this?

How the fuck did everyone just look at this and go, yeah that's great, what a great idea, this is really great

Most people are idiotic manchildren that like comic book movies and The Martian. Of course they're not going to put something as pleb as them down.

>>7636313

someone shoot this man

>>7635175
Plebian opinion here: I liked this book a lot. I used to be pretty big into video games (not so much anymore) but I really liked how it portrayed the future of VR and how your life online is almost more important than your life offline. There was also a pretty detailed description of life in his apartment later in the book and I found it to be a very likely vision of the near future. If you're looking for something fun that doesn't take itself too seriously, just read it, at worst you've wasted a day or two

>>7636472
I will never be bored enough to even put this in incessant backlog.

>>7636472

It was much better in Snow Crash.

>>7636313
WOW HE'S SO SMART

Seeing passages from this and actually reading a third of the Martian I can't wait for someone to make a book where paragraphs are stacked like a reddit thread.

In one scene of this book the main character says he's a virgin and then starts crying when a girl rejects him

It is an injustice that this man made millions from this book and now can actually call himself a successful author

>>7636602
Then why haven't you done it?

>>7636238
And the rest is fanfiction-tier narrative prose
>>7636472
>>>/v/
>>>/out/
>>>/pleb/

>>7636610
What part of 'injustice' do you not understand, my tourist friend?

>>7635211
How to become reddit: the manual

>>7636614
I'm just saying, that since every book /lit/ writes must be a masterpiece in comparison to all the books you people criticize everyday, your novel about depressed twenty-somethings spouting out armchair philosophy, drinking and hanging themselves should make you way more money than Ernest Cline.

>>7636628
masterpieces don't make money as they are necessarily for the few and patronage is not in fashion

>>7636628
>since every book /lit/ writes must be a masterpiece in comparison

Yep

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/4/42/The_Legacy_of_Totalitarianism_in_a_Tundra.pdf

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*bows respectfully*

>>7636275
so, this idiot is the John Green for midlife crisis people?

Never read books written by Gamma males.

So this is like the pleb version of Ulysses?

>>7636754
What? No. What?

>>7636275
Harry Potter is nowhere near as awful

A grownup Harry Potter is Neil Gaiman

>>7636758
Same basic idea. Stream of consciousness novel relying on allusions

>>7636762
Careful, they get angry when confronted with uncomfortable truths.

>>7636275
oh my god this fucker lives in my city

no wonder the literary scene around here is filled with epic fuckery like this

>>7636275
>those reviews
this definitively proves that all modern "journalism" is trash

>>7637062
>modern
it was, it is and it will be trash, my friend

The only thing that made it bad, to me, was the retro pop culture references. I thought the story itself was good, and the concept of the internet becoming a second reality everyone just lives in was neat. And if you're someone in the intended audience, who get the references, it's great. (I may have starting singing when they mentioned Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Shit writer.

More of the same drivel in his next book, but even worse. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1368972721?book_show_action=true

Also get a load of this qt3.14 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1323500644?book_show_action=true

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>>7635175
>>7635211
>>7636209

If you wanted autism you should read this instead

>>7635175
Isn't this basically Pixels: The Book?

I'm sure I've seen (brutally) bad reviews of it but don't care enough to dig them up.

>>7636759
Neil Gaiman these days is pretty awful

>>7638255
this is a legit avant-garde masterpiece. Probably one of the few truly innovative lit to come out in the 21st century

>>7636654
I legitimately believe the /lit/ meme books are better than Ready Player One
except Miami

>>7636762
>>7636775
How exactly is it stream of consciousness ?

>>7638255

This >>7638314 to be honest.

>>7638255
I started reading this and it really was interesting. I plan on reading the whole thing at some point, but anyone that already has, what did you think of it?

The book is YA-- Young Adult. There's a reason why the story, writing and plot may seem generic and kinda wonky. It's made for teenagers.

Great book for real.

>>7636230
>obscure

>>7636313
I remember watching this on albinoblacksheep as a 15 year old stemlord and loving it.

eugh

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>>7636731
wow

>>7638782
The early 00s internet was just absolutely fucking atrocious.

>>7638580
>It's made for teenagers.
>Great book for real.

Are you trying to tell us something?

>>7635211
What is the context of this? I'm kind of curious.

>>7638255
"you-li-lil-ee-uh" ?

>>7638808

close. you-lill-ill-ia

the middle is "ill" on its own. it's apparently, accordinging to him, because he's called mentally ill very often

>>7638314
Isn't it just a fanfic of a bad game of D&D with hex codes for colors and diagrams in it?

>>7638819
No, Ulillillia is a genius.

>>7638803
It's the future and an 80s nerd has hidden a special prize in his MMO, so this autist reads up on everything the guy ever liked so he can win the prize

>>7637077
Epic, all journalism, through the history of humanity, is trash

Just like books and poems am I right, my fellow philosopher

>>7635926
what is pic related from? I think it's some movie critic webshow that /tv/ likes but I never bother to look into it when someone mentions the name

>>7638905
I suppose you're going to tell me that Sonichu belongs in an art museum next. Or that you have a bridge to sell me.

>>7638936
Many great artists were not acknowledged in their time.

>>7638922
Mike Stoklasa from Red Letter Media. It's exactly as you described it.

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>>7635926
>That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit.

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>>7636267
Jesus Christ, it just keeps fucking going. I don't want to read over 3 pages of fucking messages.

>>7638255

That's not autism, you dumb shit. Nick has OCD. Not everything is autism.

>>7639483
the word autism has non-medical uses on 4chan. TLOTTEM is definitely a correct use.

It's a very gripping read, but not a quality book at all. Full of references just for the nostalgia, cringey dialogue, forced romance, could have been written by a teenager.

>>7639504

Not really.

>>7636313
>Nietschii

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>>7635926
>>7635211
This is the best representation of tips fedora that I have ever heard of.

>>7635926

Utter, utter drivel. The kind of shit written by a 15 year old /r9k/ lurker during a mock exam

And now the talentless cunt will make millions thanks to the Spielberg movie.

American Psycho rip-off?

>>7635211
>this fucking guy managed to get published

>>7636472
I'm not going to read that book. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.

>>7636374
(Note: I have no read this book, and the information I'm about to provide is devoid of any knowledge pertaining to the topic)
They're just gonna slap together a romantic comedy. There hardly even needs to be a story.
As long as there's enough hype attached the book (and therefore the movie) that's all they care about.

>>7636275
Just reading the synopsis here, I think this novel would make a great satire.
Just really drill into the psychological need to escape reality, living in an extreme nanny state, where you're treated like a child at every corner.
Too bad the author executed the task in spectacularly disastrous fashion.

>>7636597

Oh my fucking god.

Someone find the passage and post it.

>>7636628
You don't really understand. /lit/ is engaged with serious literature, highbrow literature, literature that can be critically engaged with. You cannot critically engage with RP1 anymore than you can engage 50 shades of gray or tom clancy. The depth, the meaning, is simply not there.

"Success" in authorship has different meanings which are approached through different avenues. To some, it means making money--these are your EL Jamess and Tom Clancys and Michael Crichtons, who pander to the lowest common denominator. To other authors, "success" means writing the next great piece of literature. Pynchon, Delillo, maybe even DFW are examples of this second category.

So when anons criticize a stupid and shitty book like RP1, they are not saying it is unsuccessful in making money, obviously. They are saying it's an un-artistic piece of trash. That being said, most writer-anons on /lit/ are no good either. It's hard to write good literature. That doesn't mean anons can't shit on bad literature.

>>7636654
and here I was thinking hypersphere was a 1-off