Ready Player One guy is coming out with his new book...

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rpo was a booked aimed at 12 year olds with a shitload of references aimed towards 30+ years old.

i dont get how it sells.
 
Slayven said:
Oh word? If someone was choosing Steelheart or this book which would you tell them to read?
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Barring drastic differences between Armada and RPO which don't appear to exist, I'd go with Steelheart for sure. Steelheart is flawed in its own ways ("sparks!"), but at the very least it has a dramatically better plot and some neat twists.
 
Lol I would have never guessed the amount of hatred you guys have for RPO. It was an amazing amount of fun to read for me.

Opinions and all.
 
Gragen said:
Lol I would have never guessed the amount of hatred you guys have for RPO. It was an amazing amount of fun to read for me.

Opinions and all.
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if not about opinions man.
i dont think an adult can actually enjoy rpo, unless that adult is not a reader or reads 1 book a year or something.
shit reads like a fanfiction ffs.
 
Are we sure this is a novel an adult wrote and not a hardcover adaptation of one of the tens of thousands of fanfictions with this exact plot?

It's boggling my mind to see those reviews follow that plot summary. I can't comprehend it.
 
Gragen said:
Lol I would have never guessed the amount of hatred you guys have for RPO. It was an amazing amount of fun to read for me.

Opinions and all.
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It was a lot like Da Vinci Code for me. A page-turner while I was reading it, and then with a bit more reflection it was like "wow that was pretty bad."

Sometimes you look back on a book warmly and go "yeah, great job author, I didn't even notice all the stuff you were doing well while I was reading but you constructed a hell of a book." And sometimes you look back and go "well I guess you did a decent job on the throughline, but man did you fall down everywhere else."

To me it's less about "hatred" and more about it just not being very well made, and leaning waaaaay too heavily on the 80s references.
 
Beaulieu said:
if not about opinions man.
i dont think an adult can actually enjoy rpo, unless that adult is not a reader or reads 1 book a year or something.
shit reads like a fanfiction ffs.
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Not really debate worthy buy I was born in the 70's. RPO was mindless fun. I'm a fantasy nerd and my cup of tea is long series specifically series like Malazan, Book of the Fallen. I still really enjoyed RPO though.
 
shawnlreed said:
Yes, he found a way to do that.
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The only way he could do this is if he traveled back in time to enrich the 80s with more pop culture mined from our present day...

My god.

All the reboots of 80s/90s properties...

It all makes sense now.
 
Slayven said:
Oh word? If someone was choosing Steelheart or this book which would you tell them to read?
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Steelheart, whilst not perfect by any stretch, is a much, much better read. More interesting concept and a faster moving plot.

I'd recommend checking out Red Rising too. It's a fairly recent book (2 books out so far) but is like a mature science fiction cross between Hunger Games/Battle Royale, Ender's Game and Gattaca and stands out amongst the deluge of crappy dystopian novels we've been subjected to in the past few years.
 
I thought Ready Player One was awful. No idea how that reviewed well anywhere. I feel like I got suckered. No way I am going to read this, no matter what the reviews say.
 
Timedog said:
Sounds like a book made for 11 year olds. Nothing wrong with books written for 11 year old dorkwads. I wish I had this instead of Hardy Boys or whatever the hell else I was reading that sucked balls.
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I wish I had read hardy boys instead of Agatha Christie books with really racist titles.
 
Cyan said:
Barring drastic differences between Armada and RPO which don't appear to exist, I'd go with Steelheart for sure. Steelheart is flawed in its own ways ("sparks!"), but at the very least it has a dramatically better plot and some neat twists.
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Oh Cyan, my favorite Bourgeoisie:
MHWilliams said:
Holy shit, Steelheart. Sanderson is bar none, one of my favorite writers today.
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The second book changed how I view comics, there are a lot of superhero novels out there but 99% of themend up being corny as hell. Sanderson comes out with one and ends up on some Ellis shit.
 
From that synopsis, i can only guess the plot twist is that the ufo is not real and the gamers, are in fact NOT holding back an invasion, it's just a game and the theme of the book is about the main character growing up out of those escapism fantasies.
 
PSqueak said:
From that synopsis, i can only guess the plot twist is that the ufo is not real and the gamers, are in fact NOT holding back an invasion, it's just a game and the theme of the book is about the main character growing up out of those escapism fantasies.
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Guessing you didn't read Ready Player One. :P

More likely to be something like Galaxy Quest, where the aliens are familiar with the old stories or some shit. Or it's secretly the government all along. Or an evil corporation. Or, I dunno, pretty much anything but criticism of escapism.
 
jon bones said:
i feel bad for the people who have to read this for reviews :/

RPO is amongst the worst books ever written, i have no idea how few books you have to read in your life for it to seem good.



SAVE YOUR TIME

RPO is an awful, awful book about a fat, poor white neckbeard MMO player who falls in love with a girl he meets once in-game and cries when she leaves him in an MMO-dance club.

it has terrible prose, and is borderline unreadable because of it.

i assume it gets worse after that point, but i couldn't read any further.

it's like Superman 64: The Book and it boggles my mind that someone could possibly enjoy it, as it is terrible on every level: plot, prose, characterization, etc.
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Cyan said:
Barring drastic differences between Armada and RPO which don't appear to exist, I'd go with Steelheart for sure. Steelheart is flawed in its own ways ("sparks!"), but at the very least it has a dramatically better plot and some neat twists.
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If I have been disappointed with Sanderson's character writing, will I still be disappointed in Steelheart?
 
Have any of you seen that E.T. Atari documentary on Netflix? He's in it a bit and you realize how much of a weirdo he actually is. Especially when he drives a delorian to the dig site. I think one of the worst parts of that book was when he describes his virtual car.
 
I heard a lot of great things about Ready, Player One, but it hasn't hooked me. It's strange: I enjoy reading it when I am, but I never remember that I am reading it when I'm bored.

I get like that with books sometimes. At times, I'm really in the mood to read and I'll pillage the local library. Then, at others, it doesn't interest me.

I'll likely check this out from the library, too.

(I checked RPO out twice, but had to return it due to others placing holds. I'm only about 70 pages in. My friend got it in a Loot Crate, though, so I've borrowed it. I haven't touched it in a month, though.)
 
Haly said:
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I have not read any of this author's books.

I really hate the title of this thread. I had no effing idea what this thread was about before clicking.
 
I kinda liked Ready Player One until I saw on GAF I was supposed to hate it.

FUCK THAT PIECE OF SHIT!!


also--- I was expecting this to be Whitta.
 
Eh. Applied for a review copy from their publishing house because why not? As I told the person who runs the site I write/edit for in my spare time, "I haven't had a hate boner in awhile and those are fun to jerk off."

I'll literally be more upset if it turns out to be good.
 
Stumpokapow said:
It's LootCrate in book form.
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Tangential but Devin Faraci (over at Birthmoviesdeath.com) has his podcast The Canon sponsored by Loot Crate sometimes and their service feels so antithetical to a lot of his opinions on movie culture and geek culture that I swear you can kind of hear him straining sometimes when he has to endorse them in the ads.
 
Ready Player One is one of those things I'm never going to get I think. I see people shit all over BBT for being "pandering nerd humor" and then turn around and jack off all over Ready Player One.
 
Fmal said:
Ready Player One is one of those things I'm never going to get I think. I see people shit all over BBT for being "pandering nerd humor" and then turn around and jack off all over Ready Player One.
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you know the hot topic "you laugh because i'm different, i laugh because you're all the same" shirt?

bbt = "you laugh because i'm different"
ready player one = "i laugh because you're all the same"

ready player one fans = the kind of people who think hot topic is very deep and thought-provoking
 
Stumpokapow said:
you know the hot topic "you laugh because i'm different, i laugh because you're all the same" shirt?

bbt = "you laugh because i'm different"
ready player one = "i laugh because you're all the same"

ready player one fans = the kind of people who think hot topic is very deep and thought-provoking
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Snap.
 
Big Bang Theory is only pretending to be nerd humour while actually laughing at nerds.
Ready Player One is only pretending to be a book while actually being a list of things that have happened in popular culture.

Stumpokapow said:
you know the hot topic "you laugh because i'm different, i laugh because you're all the same" shirt?

bbt = "you laugh because i'm different"
ready player one = "i laugh because you're all the same"

ready player one fans = the kind of people who think hot topic is very deep and thought-provoking
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Yeah this basically.
 
LMAO RPO was written by the same guy who wrote Fanboys?

He's made a career out of absolute lowest common denominator nerd pandering. It's almost exploitative.
 
Back before the thread title was changed, I thought this was going to be another book by Rick Chapman: Rick Chapman Author "Rule-Set: A Novel of a Quantum Future." More info at www.rule-set.com
 
Ryuelli said:
I absolutely loved Ready Player One, but the ending was a little weak. It definitely wasn't the most well written book in the world, but it was a ton of fun to read. Can't wait for this, even if it does sound like more of the same.
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Yep, i feel exactly the same way. Getting this on kindle when i can.
 
Trojita said:
Back before the thread title was changed, I thought this was going to be another book by Rick Chapman: Rick Chapman Author "Rule-Set: A Novel of a Quantum Future." More info at www.rule-set.com
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After that thread, I want to get everyone on here to read Thor Is The Galaxy Sentinel in the Last Warlord by Gary T. Brideau.

A former coworker bought the book for the management team as a christmas gift the other year, and it is absolutely hilarious, and not in a good way. He was one of the only two reviews for the book on GoodReads. The other is a five star review by the author himself.

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Seriously, hunt down the book. It is terrible and hilarious self published stuff.
 
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