Re: [PLUG] Ready Player One: A Novel (and about to be a movie)

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

I really hated it too. It was nostalgia about things I'm not
particularly nostalgic about. And if the nostalgia didn't do it for
you, there's not much else in the book to enjoy. The writing's poor,
the main character is one-dimensional, the minor characters are less
than one-dimensional, and much of the plot is advanced via numerous
lengthy infodumps. Cline couldn't even get the meter right for a
limerick.

I was actually hoping the movie might be better because of Spielberg's
influence, but the early reviews I've read don't make me optimistic.

Walt

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 04:26:19PM -0400, Doug Stewart wrote:
> I feel like I'm in the minority on this one, but I found the book to be
> derivative of better priors (Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Daemon) and to rely
> too heavily upon 80's-flavored Memberberries. I kind of wonder whether
> Spielberg's interpretation won't improve my impressions.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Jeff Bailey <skydiver38@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > Agree that the book was great.   I have reservations about the movie,
> > mainly because it's Spielberg.  I see it as a grittier story than I imagine
> > Spielberg will translate it.  Hope I'm wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>
> > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <
> > plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > Sent: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 4:16 pm
> > Subject: [PLUG] Ready Player One: A Novel (and about to be a movie)
> >
> > The excellent _Ready Player One: A Novel_ by Ernest Cline is coming out as
> > an awesome looking movie at the end of the month. Go get the book now, and
> > be ready for the movie, which Spielberg is involved with. If you are not
> > familiar with the book and fail to see the relevance to this group, go
> > check out the book. ;-) I'd bring it to PLUG N today for show-n-tell, but
> > my copy is at school being re-re-read by my 13yo. Enjoy, JP --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------- JP
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> -- 
> -Doug

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