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Giggle Goose posted:I wonder how Cline sees himself. Does he know that his writing is awful and that his success is a literary black swan event? Does he see himself as some kind of auteur? His wife is a slam poet so I have no doubt he really thinks he's good at words
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Giggle Goose posted:I wonder how Cline sees himself. Does he know that his writing is awful and that his success is a literary black swan event? Does he see himself as some kind of auteur? I take it you're unfamiliar with the type of people who write astoundingly terrible and self-serious fanfic
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Dec 1, 2020 23:20
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my ex was from RR Martin's hometown and you know how one of GoT's running themes is that power doesn't give a poo poo what a goody two-shoes you are because everyone is actually a mercenary backstabbing rear end in a top hat and being upright and moral just makes you an easy target? yeah that miserable loving dump of a town is about as close to a real-life Westeros as you can get
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quote:The clacking of typewriter keys ceased, and we heard someone get up, followed by approaching footsteps. Then the door opened, and there he was, standing right in front of us, in the simulated flesh: John Wilden Hughes Jr.
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He was a level 9000 super saiyan piss pig now and nothing could stop his Atari fueled lust for pepperoni pizza, just like his huge hogged Ninja Turtle avatar demanded on FOX NFL Sunday
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This book is amazing loved it so much, made me laugh and cry so much, i love everything mr cline does so maybe im biased but i think he did amazing job in this sequal. If you loved ready player one and listebed to it or read it two does or more times like me theb youll love this book too. Thank you mr cline for making this and all your books, it helps me get through this thing we call life. 2 people found this helpful.
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Agent Escalus posted:IGN rarely reviews books, but I guess they really wanted to publicly say that RP2 sucks! quote:Ready Player Two trades the fun and wish fulfillment of its predecessor for a fundamentally flawed, inconsistent quest towards the singularity. Nerdy references abound, but they’re not enough to save a story centered around a protagonist who’s even tougher to root a second time questing after an artifact you start to wish he won’t find. The OASIS is still full of iconic pop culture mainstays, but this time around, there’s little heart to be found and this sequel suffers as a result. "I still clapped each time I saw the references, but the subtext is bothering me a little, I'm just not sure how to parse it - almost like it's the author's genuine opinions and not a fantasy" And here's the review for the first book, from 2012: quote:Ready Player One is geek crack, a novel that reads like a cross between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Tron, with a healthy dose of Avatar, The Matrix, The Last Starfighter and The Hunger Games thrown in for good measure. The reviewer's bio: quote:Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and although he was born in the 1970s, he considers himself a child of the '80s. Chris can be found going on and on about Back to the Future on both Twitter and MyIGN. Chris Tilly and Ernest Cline are, allegedly, not the same person.
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A Fancy Hat posted:"I recognize these barrels. Wait a minute, I recognize these girders, too! Don't you see what's going on?" loving lmao
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ErrEff posted:Chris Tilly and Ernest Cline are, allegedly, not the same person. I do not believe that for a second
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Jim Long-un posted:my ex read effectively zero books and one of the exceptions was RP1 which she claimed was one of the coolest books she'd ever read and that I'd probably like it because videogames. then she started to describe the premise to me and since she was my gf at the time I didn't tell her that whole diatribe made her sound like a complete dumbass but, it made her sound like a complete dumbass. anyway I broke up with her rear end by grabbing her tail and spinning around like Super Mario 64 and then after launching her into the air Dante and I went into Devil Trigger mode and air comboed her before I shoved a Bob-omb in her pussy and the resulting explosion blasted her off into the skybox like in Super Smash Bros woah hey you should write a book about this cool poo poo was a rush song playing in the background?
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I do not understand this endless nostalgia worship in modern-American culture. The present is no picnic sure, but there is drat good new art out there in every medium that is and ever has been just about. Not just traditional films and TV shows, music, and writing, but also all the weird new subcultures created by the ubiquity of the internet. And that's just the poo poo coming out of the US! One of my friends has asked me to watch the movie with him about 5 times now and I just can't even understand the base appeal of the film (let alone the novel cause these loving passages y'all are posting are bat poo poo to the point I can't hardly tell which are the fakes and which are genuine excerpts). I'd say I'm too old to understand, but it sure seems like there are an awful lot of 30-40ish guys that are super into it. Are the younger crowd into this poo poo too?
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Giggle Goose posted:I do not understand this endless nostalgia worship in modern-American culture. The present is no picnic sure, but there is drat good new art out there in every medium that is and ever has been just about. Not just traditional films and TV shows, music, and writing, but also all the weird new subcultures created by the ubiquity of the internet. And that's just the poo poo coming out of the US! One of my friends has asked me to watch the movie with him about 5 times now and I just can't even understand the base appeal of the film (let alone the novel cause these loving passages y'all are posting are bat poo poo to the point I can't hardly tell which are the fakes and which are genuine excerpts). I'd say I'm too old to understand, but it sure seems like there are an awful lot of 30-40ish guys that are super into it. Are the younger crowd into this poo poo too? Our (30-40) demographic get the references, since it's all from our time. Ironically, you'd have to be mentally/emotionally 15-20 years behind that to actually love writing like Cline's.
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Mordja posted:Is GRRM dead yet? Oh my god, Ernest Cline is going to finish ASoIaF
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The 80s and 90s are worshipped because if you are white and were born in the suburbs you got to live in a fun little bubble of prosperity and comfort that started to fall apart after 9/11, IMO.
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Duck Stab! posted:Something tells me the author really enjoys "media."
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MrQwerty posted:That is because Nintendo will sue the everloving loving poo poo out of a 3 year old for making a lovely crayon drawing of Mario and their parents for posting it on the internet, faster than you can blink that's also why there aren't any references to Gumshoe Gooper
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Slotducks posted:Y'all haven't even posted the piss poor attempt at being inclusive to non-binary people
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I love how jerking off is still the impetus for the character changing lmao.
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imagine writing a story about a scavenger hunt that's set in a virtual world where anything is possible and making your protagonist play an obscure arcade game which you spend paragraphs describing in great detail and it's not even like they're having to reenact the video game by taking the place of the playable character, no, they're literally playing the cabinet version of it in a virtual reconstruction of an arcade in some small US town doesn't that sound thrilling?!?!
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Stunt_enby posted:THIS IS NOT loving REAL HOLY poo poo HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH STRAIGHT PEOPLE Conspicuously absent is sex with a woman as a man. Conclusion: the protagonist and the author are not straight. Maybe he doesn't know it yet though and this is like performative confusion about sexualities that aren't cis het male. Edit: I like to think this Art3mis character was the inspiration for Elon musk's stupid baby name.
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Giggle Goose posted:I do not understand this endless nostalgia worship in modern-American culture. The present is no picnic sure, but there is drat good new art out there in every medium that is and ever has been just about. Not just traditional films and TV shows, music, and writing, but also all the weird new subcultures created by the ubiquity of the internet. And that's just the poo poo coming out of the US! One of my friends has asked me to watch the movie with him about 5 times now and I just can't even understand the base appeal of the film (let alone the novel cause these loving passages y'all are posting are bat poo poo to the point I can't hardly tell which are the fakes and which are genuine excerpts). I'd say I'm too old to understand, but it sure seems like there are an awful lot of 30-40ish guys that are super into it. Are the younger crowd into this poo poo too? Because with nostalgia you don't have to do anything financially risky like creating anything new. Just get the license of something from the demographic you want paying to watch it and call it a day.
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The really sad part is this paragraph has multiple things that occur in the book for real.
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Ernst Cline's second book Armada (though almost certainly written before Ready Player One and he just pulled it out of a drawer) is straight up the Last Starfighter but jam packed with 80s references.
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Weka posted:Edit: I like to think this Art3mis character was the inspiration for Elon musk's stupid baby name. Elon Musk was born and named in the 70s, decades before this book came out.
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Elman posted:Elon Musk was born and named in the 70s, decades before this book came out. No, his dumb baby's name. X AE A-XII.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Ernst Cline's second book Armada (though almost certainly written before Ready Player One and he just pulled it out of a drawer) is straight up the Last Starfighter but jam packed with 80s references. someone told me a character in Armada explicitly says "Wow this is exactly like the movie The Last Starfighter!"
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I'm reminded of the We Are Legion book I tried to read. Could barely make it through the first hour of the book because it had so many "jokes" that were just references to other media. It seems such a lazy way to write a novel. Imagine if GRRM described his characters like "Ned Stark acts and looks like Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings, he had a grizzled look just like The Witcher". Sure he'd be able to actually finish his books but it's so lazy. Or in the case of a sci-fi novel, imagine describing your space ship like "My ship was about half the size of a borg cube but only a third the size of the Death Star". What the hell does any of this mean to someone not already in the know?
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Mrs. Dash posted:someone told me a character in Armada explicitly says "Wow this is exactly like the movie The Last Starfighter!" Supposedly the plot of Ready Player Two is exactly like Sword Art Online (I don't watch anime so I don't know) and a YouTuber theorized that Spielberg came up with the plot for this book with Cline during production of the movie and Cline couldn't tell him "that's just Sword Art Online" so instead he had a bunch of characters reference it in the text.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Supposedly the plot of Ready Player Two is exactly like Sword Art Online (I don't watch anime so I don't know) and a YouTuber theorized that Spielberg came up with the plot for this book with Cline during production of the movie and Cline couldn't tell him "that's just Sword Art Online" so instead he had a bunch of characters reference it in the text. Given that he's already written a book that copies the plot exactly of something else, why would Cline have any shame in doing it again?
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Jim Long-un posted:my ex was from RR Martin's hometown and you know how one of GoT's running themes is that power doesn't give a poo poo what a goody two-shoes you are because everyone is actually a mercenary backstabbing rear end in a top hat and being upright and moral just makes you an easy target? yeah that miserable loving dump of a town is about as close to a real-life Westeros as you can get Are you talking about Bayonne NJ? It's where they filmed the video for Popular by Nada Surf.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Supposedly the plot of Ready Player Two is exactly like Sword Art Online (I don't watch anime so I don't know) and a YouTuber theorized that Spielberg came up with the plot for this book with Cline during production of the movie and Cline couldn't tell him "that's just Sword Art Online" so instead he had a bunch of characters reference it in the text. Does the main character's step sister fall in love with him?
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"Wait, so this is what it's like... to be Superman?" "That's right," said Superman. "This is what it's like to be me. You seem to be handling it extremely well, Wade. Better than I did when I first developed my powers." "Well, you don't play as many games as I have without learning a LITTLE something about superpowers!" Wade delicately used his heat vision to finish toasting his grilled cheese sandwich. It smelled amazing and he couldn't wait to take a bite. Suddenly, the wall exploded behind them and out burst Shadow the Hedgehog. But something was wrong - he had a metal helmet on his head that completely covered his face. He pointed his trademark gun at Wade and Superman. "Oh no!" said Wade. "Looks like whoever's mind controlling everyone got to Shadow, too!" "Well old chum, let's see if you're faster than a speeding bullet!" Wade was, he instantly disarmed Shadow and removed the mind control helmet. Shadow then quickly explained that the mind control device had been placed on his head by Magneto, from the X-Men entertainment franchise. Magneto was working with a mysterious other made scientist, too. "It's gotta be Lex Luthor!" said Superman. "No. I'm using your powers now Superman, and I can see the energy aura around every single living thing. Have you ever done this?" "No, to be honest you're using my powers far better than I ever did. Wade, you truly are a Superman for the modern era. By the way, have you ever heard of the author Ernest Cline? I believe I would like to meet him one day, he seems like a great mind, a Superman in his own right."
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Sorry but that's obviously fake. It doesn't say if it's marvel cinematic universe Magneto or comic book Magneto.
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