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I briefly glanced at this book and it peaked my interest bc I'm a goon and like video games. A post apocalypse where everyone is playing an MmO...genius I do wholeheartedly believe that OP's unfunny faggotry and incessant crying suggests that this book is, in fact, worth reading. Don't act like such a triggered baby. Next time a book offends you eat a patch of fentanyl
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Jun 19, 2015 22:28
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Madcosby posted:the climax of the book involves the main character having to recite every line from The Holy Grail, while the evil villain must do the same. The first person to succeed wins the company. The funny thing about this is that it's supposed to be a YA book. What YA reader age kids know Holy Grail? (The answer is manchildren. Supposed adults go for children's books as their main reading material.) Anyways it's not like there hasn't been tons of complete trash in SF & genre fiction before, but now it gets to the top because of the dumb internet nerd fanbase. Ready Player One got tons of promotion on boingboing. John Scalzi is somehow the big name in SF now? Despite being completely mediocre, but he's got a popular blog. The internet ruins everything.
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Jun 19, 2015 22:32
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There are a billion dumb things in this book but the one I have the biggest problem is they're apparently in the future but all of their poo poo in their stupid second life ripoff is taken from media from between 1980 and 2010. Did all culture stop after 2010? Does no one in the future have any sort of imagination to come up with their own poo poo in this super powerful computer game instead of just flying around in star wars spaceships and dr who boxes?
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Jun 19, 2015 22:40
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Cheesegod posted:There are a billion dumb things in this book but the one I have the biggest problem is they're apparently in the future but all of their poo poo in their stupid second life ripoff is taken from media from between 1980 and 2010. But you're missing the references 
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Jun 19, 2015 22:45
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My pen name is Glenn Cramham. Look for my new young adult adventure book: Flying (with) Solo. It's a look into the mind of a beloved hairy co-pilot on his many wacky adventures. You'll get to hear
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Jun 19, 2015 22:50
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Cheesegod posted:There are a billion dumb things in this book but the one I have the biggest problem is they're apparently in the future but all of their poo poo in their stupid second life ripoff is taken from media from between 1980 and 2010. It's 2015 and the biggest movie in the world is a Jurassic Park movie. A few weeks ago it was a Mad Max sequel.
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Jun 19, 2015 22:54
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Madcosby posted:the climax of the book involves the main character having to recite every line from The Holy Grail, while the evil villain must do the same. The first person to succeed wins the company. waitwaitwait i thought the climax was when the evil corporation dropped a nuke on castle greyskull and then ultraman had to fight godzilla and *the exact sound of my veins flaying themselves out of my skin and running away from this awful nerd poo poo*
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Jun 19, 2015 22:59
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Pulp Can Move posted:It's 2015 and the biggest movie in the world is a Jurassic Park movie. A few weeks ago it was a Mad Max sequel. What about Frozen????????????
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Jun 19, 2015 23:01
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:waitwaitwait i thought the climax was when the evil corporation dropped a nuke on castle greyskull and then ultraman had to fight godzilla and *the exact sound of my veins flaying themselves out of my skin and running away from this awful nerd poo poo* hahaha i forgot about that part. ya that was one of the worst chapters ever put in print it was unforgivably bad. honestly some of the worst writing I've ever encountered
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Jun 19, 2015 23:05
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I certainly hope this whole post-modern craze wears off soon and we can go back to paintings of women on swings and big mountains. Certainly beats now when most media seems to be about how good/bad media was X years ago.
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Jun 19, 2015 23:23
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Madcosby posted:hahaha i forgot about that part. ya that was one of the worst chapters ever put in print ok wait at this point I am almost able to believe anything about internet nerd culture, but is this real?
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Jun 19, 2015 23:28
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The only redeeming quality of Ready Player One is that it introduced me in a roundabout way to Neal Stephenson. What is your opinion on Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon, OP?
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Jun 19, 2015 23:33
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Son of Rodney posted:ok wait at this point I am almost able to believe anything about internet nerd culture, 100% real The treasure hunters meet the villains at the drawbridge of Castle Grayskull. They each use a figurine that turns them into some mech-anime thing including but not limited to Ultraman or Godzilla or Voltron or the female Tranzor Z that shoots beams from her breasts. Then they battle, featuring vivid descriptions of attack animations. Then the villain drops an item that kills everyone in a PvP zone, so when he respawns outside the zone he can get back first. the main character conveinently returns to life immediately thans to a 1-Up he got from a Pac-Man kill screen this is in a book written in 2015
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Jun 19, 2015 23:36
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Qvindtar posted:The only redeeming quality of Ready Player One is that it introduced me in a roundabout way to Neal Stephenson. What is your opinion on Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon, OP? I didn't like Snowcrash either. I had 3 copies at once, many people have gifted them to me thinking I would like it. That opening description of riding the uber highway while delivering a pizza like a ninja was the most childish thing I had read (up to Ready Player One) so I never finished it I would describe Stephenson's work as Faulkner compared to Ready Player One
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Jun 19, 2015 23:37
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No im fartacus
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Jun 19, 2015 23:39
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Madcosby posted:Holy poo poo. I bet it's the author that wrote the OP because nothing will make goons buy a book faster than if they actively want to hate it! GBS is run by hipsters
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Jun 19, 2015 23:43
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I'm the guy that inspired the books main protagonist. It's mostly a true story.
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Jun 19, 2015 23:53
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Madcosby posted:100% real Actually it was written in like 2011, but agreed that it was rly bad. I read it on audiobook on my commute to work because the premise sounded interesting (but then p much anyone can have an interesting idea), and it sort of was before he completely bungled the execution by about chapter 2. Like he could have had something if it focused on society crumbling and desperately clinging to fantasies of an idealized past but no, everybody's thrilled they get to spend their days playing old video games and watching 80s sitcoms and poo poo. The plot outline was a couple chapters of background and then nothing but empty slots he filled with video game references describing how they are played. Also since it was an audiobook I had to hear Wil wheaton spit it out in nasally mush mouth delivery. I recommend it if you are a masochist wanting to see terrible people making a killing pandering to manchildren
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Jun 19, 2015 23:58
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Madcosby posted:I didn't like Snowcrash either. I had 3 copies at once, many people have gifted them to me thinking I would like it. Though if snow crash isn't to your liking I question what you're doing reading SF at all, other than a couple authors like Banks or such. Ask people to give you real books for gifts.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:02
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Klyith posted:The rest of the book is, well, not exactly like the opening chapter (for one thing it rapidly becomes clear that the main character is a fuckup who is really only a badass ninja swordfighter hacker in VR and gets completely shown up in actual fights) -- but it ain't high lit. It's a vivid action post-Gibson cyberpunk book. hahha Im sorry dismissing Snowcrash means I'm forbidden from reading anything science fiction. I do intend to give some Stephenson book a second chance sometime in the future.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:08
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as a real sci fi enthusiast I only read the russian greats like lem or asimov
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Jun 20, 2015 00:14
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will someone please for the love of god rescue the poor baby
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Jun 20, 2015 00:18
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I had nearly forgot about this book. I read it on deployment because it was at the top of the sci-fi list on iBooks, and it seriously was the most cringe inducing poo poo. I read Hyperion immediately afterwards though, and that poo poo was drat good.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:20
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Read Fall of Hyperion next, then don't read anything else Dan Simmons published after it.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:27
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My wife got it for me for Christmas. SO bad
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Jun 20, 2015 00:30
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It was okay. I thought the 'interactive movie' aspect was interesting, wonder if anything will come of that if oculus rift et al really does take off. As for the author I got no hate for his nerdiness. Let his geek flag fly, he seems to be having fun with it. I'll take his stuff over Dan Brown anyday.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:30
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Scaramouche posted:It was okay. I thought the 'interactive movie' aspect was interesting, wonder if anything will come of that if oculus rift et al really does take off. Apparently this piece of poo poo has a movie deal with Stephen Spielberg attached...so who knows!
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Jun 20, 2015 00:33
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Can't wait for the movie.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:33
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Aren't they making it into a movie? Of course they are. Spielberg to direct. Christ. http://deadline.com/2015/03/ready-player-one-movie-steven-spielberg-ernest-cline-warner-bros-1201398299/ EDIT drat we all jumped on that didn't we
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Jun 20, 2015 00:34
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my brothers ex boyfriend bought me this book for christmas because he thought i'd like it he was wrong
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Jun 20, 2015 00:35
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lmao sounds like someones got a gay bro
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Jun 20, 2015 00:38
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The author constantly goes into non-sequitors that constantly contradict the story.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:39
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Madcosby posted:hahha Im sorry dismissing Snowcrash means I'm forbidden from reading anything science fiction. I do intend to give some Stephenson book a second chance sometime in the future. I had the same reaction but Snow Crash is a pretty great parody of all the DARK NINJA MASTER ANIME nerdlings that live at Crunchy Roll. The Diamond Age is his best book, I think.
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FordPRefectLL posted:my brothers ex boyfriend bought me this book for christmas because he thought i'd like it sorry you didnt like it
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Jun 20, 2015 00:42
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You guys are shitheads. Ready Player One is a great book (though like 90% of the references are to the 80s and over my head), and the movie he wrote Fanboys is also pretty drat good even though it sounds like the shittiest movie ever.
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Jun 20, 2015 00:45
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jarjarbinksfan621 posted:You guys are shitheads. Ready Player One is a great book (though like 90% of the references are to the 80s and over my head), and the movie he wrote Fanboys is also pretty drat good even though it sounds like the shittiest movie ever. Thanks for your input, jarjarbinksfan
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Scaramouche posted:It was okay. I thought the 'interactive movie' aspect was interesting, wonder if anything will come of that if oculus rift et al really does take off. no nothing will come of it because in the stupid book the author makes reciting movie lines take place in the first person i dont know if youve noticed this but none of the films you enjoyed were filmed in the first person it would take re-filming the entire movie to make that idea a reality or worse, filming a movie from the start to make the interactive movie later like that's always gone well
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Son of Rodney posted:as a real sci fi enthusiast I only read the russian greats like lem or asimov lol in foundation there is exactly one female character and her entire role is to be distracted by a shiny bauble, clearly the mark of a forward thinking mind
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Madcosby posted:when one clue towards the treasure also includes three words that appear in a verse from the Bible, they instantly dismiss the Bible reference because "[The Creator] was an athiest, anyone looking for help in the Bible is a MORON". Wow, my parents raised me atheist and still had me learn about Bible stuff. My mom especially is at least as mad at religion as a lot of these r/atheist guys, but even she knows that Biblical stories and concepts are important for cultural literacy. Plus she likes celebrating Christmas and Easter for the presents and colored eggs and stuff. Ernest doesn't need to be so smug. Also voting Wil Wheaton for public office just because he's the geek poster boy du jour is the dumbest thing I've heard today
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