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The guys from Rifftrax already did a Let's Read of Ready Player One. It's astonishing that this book got good reviews from mainstream critics considering how bad it is. http://372pages.com/episode-0-a-book-were-probably-going-to-hate The movie is getting good reviews, probably because Spielberg knows how to inject tension into a scene and excised the horrible inner monologue of the protagonist talking about how much media he has literally memorized.
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Proteus Jones posted:Holy poo poo, thank you for that link. I love there’s entire podcast that revolves around throwing shade at the written work of Cline. It looks like they’ve finished the Let’s Read of RPO and moved on to Armada. They've coined the term "Cline-ian" to describe particularly dumb sentences of a certain type and passages where tension is first set up and then dispelled before it gets the chance to have any effect on the narrative.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Honestly the same thing happens when I think about Twilight and it’s interesting to contrast the two books in terms of being pure power fantasies. So much potential just left rotting on the floor for the sake of individual wank. Although the more I hear about RPO the more I feel it’s on a Handbook for Mortals level. They're reading Armada now and have pointed out a new bit of awful Cline-ian writing. The "I realized I was" which makes it seem like the character isn't in control of his body at any point. This goes along with the "I was already doing...". So he'll tell you what he should be doing, then say he was already doing that thing. God it's awful. He also has a penchant for "It would come to be known as..." PJOmega posted:It's really bad, but no it isn't H4M tier. You are right to point out similarities to Twilight, and that's actually why I harp on RPO in my social circle so heavily. It's still perfectly acceptable in polite company to rip on Twilight and 50 Shades and even people who enjoyed them won't rise to defend them. Fans of RPO however will get outraged at any criticism. And people will try to back it down. The only real dividing line is that it's seen as socially acceptable to rip on women aimed reading, but it's not "fair" to attack male orientated reading. And RPO is insanely aimed at men. This is why I hate RPO more than Twilight. I'm also not the target demographic for Twilight, whereas I am for RPO and I resent this dreck being marketed to me. Ccs has a new favorite as of 03:49 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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The Swedish film adaption of the first book was good.
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The summer that A Girl With the Dragon Tattoo English translation came out you could hardly go a day without someone talking about it, or talking about how they'd seen the Swedish film, or how they were so surprised that Sweden was such a dangerous place because the Nordic countries always seem so safe. Or about the drama surrounding the author's death and the battle over the manuscripts.
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