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So, anyone have read the book and looking forward to the movie?

I did and loved it.

I also love the book's hatedom too.

These guys LOVE to hate on RP1.

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The movie looks very much like "HEY DO YOU REMEMBER THIS COOL THING?" The movie. That's not terribly interesting to me.

LavarosVA wrote:The movie looks very much like "HEY DO YOU REMEMBER THIS COOL THING?" The movie. That's not terribly interesting to me.

Weirdly, you will either hate or love it for this but the book is basically Tron meets Willy Wonka.

A bunch of virtual reality-using video game nerds in a cyberpunk dystopia try to win a dead billionaire's contest to get their very own megacorp as the prize.

The CEO weirdly made all of virtual reality based on his childhood franchises and everyone else buys their own avatars from the company store.

LavarosVA wrote:The movie looks very much like "HEY DO YOU REMEMBER THIS COOL THING?" The movie. That's not terribly interesting to me.

That was a lot of the book too. Loads of lists, little meaning to them. The whole thing read like a 13 year old's wish fulfillment.

It's not Vonnegut but I found it entertaining.

I wish they'd made a big-budget adaptation of Snow Crash instead. That book had something to say, at least.

Mercury01 wrote:I wish they'd made a big-budget adaptation of Snow Crash instead. That book had something to say, at least.

But...they are.

Amazon is making a season long program now.

It is the first book I have ever returned for finding it to be just too god awful to get thru.

The book has a quality I call "studded". It has nothing of value to say but it keeps making references to things people like or respond to so they don't notice that it is just prattling on without point. There are pages which are literal lists of nerdy references without so much as a joke about how the author did or did not like a particular book or film. If this book were a ream of cloth and each reference a sequin, it would be so studded you couldn't see the cloth for all the shitty garish adornment.

On a technical level the writing is flat out bad. At one point (before I returned the book) the author goes out of his way to explain how a ticket works. It is a ticket to a teleportation booth in a video game and he actually takes time to explain that what a ticket does. It is just a sentence but it perfectly illustrates how poor the writing is, dry definitions and lists of information without insight, perspective, or commentary.

I feel the same way about the success of "Ready Player One" as I do about "The Big Bang Theory" being a hit.

Confusion and contempt.

I think less of people when they tell me they liked this book.

Yeah pretty much everything I've seen about it make me hate it, the only hope if Spielberg pull a jurassic park and vary widely from it source material

I haven't read the book so I can't speak with certainty, but everything I have read about the book and heard about the movie makes me cringe. It appears to be an embodiment of everything wrong with geek culture presented completely uncritically.