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Famethrowa posted:Murakami really likes his seductive mysterious 16 y/o schoolgirl tropes for his older narrator to feel uneasy and horned up about. I gave up on IQ84 for similar reasons. The only other Murakami I've read is Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, so the trope I've picked up on between these two titles is "dude gets blown in a dream".
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pretty much every Oulipo writer is a cool dude(ette), like Perec, Queneau, Garreta, etc
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That’s Stephenson’s entire style. He dropped the MMO plot of Reamde super early even though it was the most interesting part of the book, and the only thing that stopped it from being entirely generic terrorist hunting. Stephenson is a writer who's very interested in tech rather than a super techbro gamer so it's understandable; but it's wack that in Snow Crash he basically predicted Second Life and VRChat, but then the MMO in Reamde besides its terrain features is just Everquest mashed with the worst kind of Korean pay-to-win poo poo.
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May 9, 2020 07:36
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The game in Reamde was supposed to be massively popular, but it just seemed like some flash in the pan MMO, that might be popular for a year or two and then make way for the Next New Thing.
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