| JP Vossen on 18 Mar 2018 11:27:06 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Ready Player One: A Novel (and about to be a movie) |
OTOH, I also tried to re-read the original _Blade Runner: DADoES_, which I have read several times but not for decades, and I gave up a few chapters in which is only about the 3rd time in my life I've stopped reading a book once I started. I'd forgotten how dreary and tedious it was.
So I'm re-reading _Neuromancer_ instead, and liking it as much as ever. Heck, I may re-read all my Gibson, then move on to Neil Stephenson, speaking of super-dense (in a good way) writing.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:20 PM, John Ashmead
<john.ashmead@ashmeadsoftware.com
<mailto:john.ashmead@ashmeadsoftware.com>> wrote:
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
<mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:jp@jpsdomain.org>>
>>> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <
>>> plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto: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 --
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