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Defiance Industries posted:Or engaging, or clever, or intriguing Yeah, I realized half a second too late "you are talking about Ernest Cline". That's like trying to get a lead pyramid to roll down hill. A better metaphor than I bet anything Ernie's ever written or will write 
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Them reading Cline just feels nice and warm in a way that Artemis made me feel.
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Apr 19, 2024 05:24
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I think what really set the tone for me with Cline was not the two page spread of references and how he'd watched all of The Simpsons and Voltron and read Stephen King and whatever but when Wade said " Our arguments were often high in entertainment value." Yeah, citation needed there.
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Apr 19, 2024 16:03
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This episode actually made me consider for the first time that Cline might have been a big fan of MST3K and I wonder if he knows how much Mike loathes his work.
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Mordja posted:This episode actually made me consider for the first time that Cline actually might have been a big fan of MST3K and I wonder if he knows how much Mike makes fun of his books. I hope so.
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Mordja posted:This episode actually made me consider for the first time that Cline might have been a big fan of MST3K and I wonder if he knows how much Mike loathes his work. One wonders how much self-awareness one can possess when they bought a DeLorean and put a Ghostbuster logo on the side.
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Mordja posted:This episode actually made me consider for the first time that Cline might have been a big fan of MST3K and I wonder if he knows how much Mike loathes his work. Had the exact same thought in the exact same place listening to that episode. Just "lol, I wonder if Cline knows".
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Who is this book for? It's way too childishly written for the YA market it purports to be targeted towards, but it also deals with the loss of family to illness and war that I imagine would put off a younger audience. Then there's the fact that it's set in the 80s and has all the throwaway references we've grown to expect, and what 9-15 year-old would give a poo poo about that?
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Apr 21, 2024 23:00
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It feels like Cline's trying to replicate one of those 60s/70s-era childrens' novels he grew up reading in school where Some Adult poo poo happens in between wholesome animal-centric adventures like Owls in the Family, Watership Down, Redwall, The Rats of NIHM, etc. It is deffo one those "guy in his 50s writing the kind of book he read as a child 40 years later for an audience of 1" things.
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Apr 22, 2024 00:53
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cline never matured past the age of 12. he's a nerd in the most pejorative sense, where his entire worldview is defined by the media he consumes. fucker's even starting his own metaverse
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https://twitter.com/372Pages/status/1782796379246457027
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BRANDS BRANDS BRANDS BRANDS 1980s REFERENCE BRANDS BRANDS BRANDS how can you tell this is an Ernest Cline novel? I am happy to say I overestimated Cline. I legit thought this was him trying something completely out of his wheelhouse to break out of his self-made box, but NOOOOOOPE 
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Apr 23, 2024 17:00
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I don't know who else subscribes to the patreon but the Encyclopedia Brown stuff is pretty funny and and a good way to feel smarter than Mike.
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Cline going on an in-character rant about how cool and awesome and friendly and you should totally rub your face all over them about bats post-COVID is a tiny bit  , just sayingYeah I get that the book is set in the 80s, but still, a single bat killed 7 million people my guy. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 08:50 on May 10, 2024 |
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May 10, 2024 08:45
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Cline just can't help himself. 
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He lasted 6 chapters, the restraint was admirable. The editors just couldn't hold him back. Cline gotta Cline. I am enjoying the tales of the 9 year old listener who is also thinks Cline is a hack.
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I'm actually weirdly impressed at how Cline it got so quickly too. It was like a dam bursting and it all just came spilling out at once. The more I hear of this book, the less confident I am that this was Cline trying to break out of his box and failing miserably, and more like someone dared him to try and write the most un-Cline novel he could and gave him the writing prompt "a story about a girl and some bats in rural Texas" just to see how far he could get before he gave in and dragged all his terrible tropes out of the tickle trunk. Like how Jim Butcher wrote the Codex Alera series because someone dared him to write a Pokemon fanfic set in ancient Rome.
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