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

[John Ashmead <john.ashmead@ashmeadsoftware.com>]

I gave up about 100 pages in. I skipped to the end to confirm:  yes he gets the girl & saves the world.  I saw nothing but cliches in this & the plot was on rail road tracks, a linear series of clues.

Maybe Spielberg will breath some life into it.  And he will certainly make sure there are good visuals.

I’m with Walt on this one

John

> On Mar 13, 2018, at 8:24 PM, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 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>
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>>> 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 --
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>> -- 
>> -Doug
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