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

[brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

On 03/18/2018 02:27 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> I re-read it the other day and you know what?  *I* still liked it!
> "Great Literature" (whatever THAT is) it is not, but I still think it's
> a very fun read and will probably make a very fun movie.  The movie
> trailer has a big car race that is not in the book, but...such is the
> difference between the media formats.
> 
> 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.
> 

Stephenson can't write an ending to save his life, but by golly is the
journey there amazing.
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