Excerpt from the book Ready Player One, the film adaptation of which is being directed by smaltz auditor Steven Spielberg.
I think the line "I'd only had it for a few weeks now but my time-travelling, Ghost Busting, Knight Riding, matter-penetrating DeLorean was already my avatar's trademark" actually gave me terminal cancer of the brain
What's terrifying is that if I had read this 7/8 years ago I would probably have enjoyed it
>not linking the pages where he just lists shit he can remember from the 80's and 90's for line after line after line
You fucked up.
This should be classified as pornography, it's just so awful and disgusting. Deriving enjoyment from something like this will degenerate your mind.
>My computer science professor suggests this book to the class
>Start reading it
holy shit
>get 3/4 through it
i actually couldnt keep reading it. it just becomes so ridiculously bad. it gets worse and worse and worse and worse.
To be fair, this is near the climax of awful writing.
Ernest Cline should crawl into a hole and run a video game channel on youtube from there, and never contribute anything to real media again.
You're right. That one doesn't fuck around with giving you cancer. You lose so many braincells after reading it you just fucking drop dead on the spot right there. I'm a ghost.
He's written worse
The worst part about the book is that everyone he loves in real life, and his whole family, is fucking killed, which isn't a spoiler at all. it's inconsequential because all he can fucking do is think about his video game girlfriend and stupid shit from the 80s.
This author is the most autistic person to actually get something published, and I am ready for all the Ready Player One fidget spinners to come complimentary with 3D movie tickets as a marketing campaign. He's basically that guy who writes the Minecraft fart books.
So... I understand this is basically Sword Art Online for people who aren't weebs?
>outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor
>my time-travelling
The writer thinks he's clever by writing a novel set in the future about people who partake in Pop Culture orgies in a VR machine to escape the cruel reality of the world they live in as a way to make a commentary on the infantilization of society when in reality, he's just contributing to the problem. t's trash. Its Pop Culture Reference: The Book. I'm surprised it's not co-written by Seth MacFarlane and the writers of Big Bang Theory.
It's SAO for weebs who never got past Toonami.
He even drops a random stilted reference to Australian dad band Midnight Oil.
No. SAO is better than this. If you pretend the last 12 episodes of SAO don't exist, it's much better.
Kek this is awful. Why do normies and Redditors eat this shit up? Its just shoehorned 80s and 90s references on every single line.
Absolutely disgusting
>The '80s was a long decade (ten whole years)
Really made me think.
I know art is subjective and all. But how can anyone, ANYONE take this seriously and believe it to be of good quality? Its just some neckbeard manchilds fanfiction that somehow got published. This shit is arguably worse than Fifty Shades of Grey.
>Can't get my novel about familial destruction and personal atomization published
>This bloated Buzzfeed article gets a Spielberg adaptation
>Worked on this film for several months
>Decide to look into the book
>Refunded it after getting the context of the shots
Main adventure plot will be cut short for the romance, which was the only decent thing on the book.
I wonder how well it will play out on screen but one thing's for sure; it will be a smash hit because atheism, retro nihilistic pop culture references and modern day feminism / diversity is so awesome my bros! yay giant robots, black trans queer homosexuals are stronk ppls too with much feelings!
I will be sure to clap in the theater with tears in my eyes like the hip crowds will.
They don't think it's quality.
They get their dopamine centers triggered by recognizing things.
>I clapped when I read Delorean!
It's the literary equivalent of McDonald's hamburger and fries
No one thinks it's "good food" but no one cares
>(Even though I now knew Aech was actually a female in real life, her avatar was still male, so I continued to refer to him as such.)
how the fuck did this get published
>try to make a statement
>completely sell out
yeah, it didnt work.
hmmm
redditkino is back on the menu
The goal of a publisher isn't to reward quality, it's to sell books.
Whoever signed off on this garbage was fucking brilliant because they saw how normies would eat this shit up
It will be a success because the cinematic god Spielberg is directing it and he's never made a bad movie and we all know his the greatest director who ever lived because he made Schindler's List and that was about the holocaust.
The way you view this book is how well-adjusted people view capeshit.
Superheros are literally just as stupid and poorly executed as this piece of trash.
>mfw I enjoyed the book and will be seeing this movie opening day
Yep. Publishing houses are about making money.
The news isn't your friend either
Congratulations, you're 13 or you're autistic.
You're right, except well-adjusted people love both this book and capeshit.
People really think this?
They will if you tell them to
No, well adjusted people like classics and nonfiction literature.
I'm offended by the notion he can't be both
...
Just like modern comedy like Family Guy and Big Bang Theory mistakes pop culture references for jokes, Ready Player One does it with sci fi writing.
>Surprised the self perpetuating hollywood jack off promoting hedonistic manchildren to stay willfully ignorant and stupid, is a success before it's even released
>We want the Star Wars: Rogue One audience
>And, of course, Kevin Smith
TMBG only had like two albums in the 80s
>ECTO-88
Sieg heil!
...
God I hate those god damned things
"I grew up with this book, I love all the references in it, so obviously when I heard they were making a movie, I knew I had to review it"
to be fair simon pegg might not own the merchandising rights to Shaun of the Dead. Even if he does
>not making bank off of people you hate
Isn't he playing the villain in this movie? lmao
Oh my god he is.
What a hypocrite.
No but marketing firms understand that normies eat up anything if it's cached in the idea of pop culture
>American """"""""""literature""""""""""
What is this? The culmination of everything wrong with nu-male Reddit pseudo-nerd culture?
The best thing you can say about American ""art"" is that it's, in fact, art made for Americans.
Yes
That's precisely what it is
>Protestant
>"""""""Culture""""""""
Rogue One was the best of the Star Wars films since the original trilogy, felt most like the original films
Hold on do I have brain cancer or have I read this thread before? Massive deja vu
Late Capitalism was a mistake
We have this thread everyday because there's nothing we love more than hating normies
It's a fun book for non-bitches, so no one here would enjoy it.
how many dead cats does osteen have in his freezer?
Recently on Sup Forums for some reason someone reposts certain threads and recreates the same replies to it.
No idea if that's what happened with this thread though.
This. I am not at all impressed with 'Member Berries: The Motion Picture.
I've never heard of this shit, can someone give me a quick rundown?
He did a stand up show called "Ultraman is Airwolf" where he tells no jokes and just rambles on about how he likes Ultraman and Airwolf. He's like one of those rich Jewish kids like Max Landis who just obsess over pop culture nonsense because they have no culture and infinite money.
You literally have excerpts posted all over this thread you dumb animeposter.
It's probably fake controversy to draw interest in the film. Or autism.
HA! I hadn't heard that. How fitting.
Why would you need a Rundown? Just read the excerpts here. Basicly all you need to know.
Stop namefagging if you're going to be bumping your own thread like this
it's an adapation of a holy grail of popular culture directed by the cinematic game changer, stephen spielberg
that is directly from the trailer
>why can't you figure this out from random nonsensical excerpts of a book you've never heard of that is literally just list of pop culture shit
how is this even Sup Forums related?
Just checked it, he doesn't play the villain, he plays a fat cat that made the videogame and scared that people would use for escapism decided to make educational games for it.
Kinda fitting actually.
>They get their dopamine centers triggered by recognizing things.
>tfw I know 80s nostalgia pandering is junk
>tfw I can't rise above my dopamine receptors
>mfw I hate every minute of knowing I enjoyed every minute of Stranger Things and will probably continue to be comfortably sedated as I hate loving season 2
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because there's going to be a movie adaptation, and the book itself references 80's movies literally every paragraph.
I don't know, maybe it's because they're making a fucking movie of it?
Are you retarded?
Why is this permitted?
Getting (you)s triggers my dopamine fix
That is literally all you need to know, because thats what it is. If you'd bothered to read the thread you'd know its being made into a movie by Spielberg. Don't you have 2d naked children to jerk it too.
Fat sperg writes a """book"" which is just a list of every single pop culture reference from the 70s and 80s he can think of. Spielberg is making it into a shitty looking film. I know the term gets bandied around a lot here, but the book is Reddit: the novel.
it's being made into a movie. Said all over the thread.
it's a shit book that is being made into a movie. stop wasting our time.
what's the problem? this movie looks like it's everything you losers like rolled into one.
It will be top contender for the most reddit flick of all time
>ywn be this deep inside your own anus
>never got past 3/4
son, the first 3/4ths are the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL compared to the last bit. it gets swine flu diapers in a hot car at the end.
>atheism
Seriously? Like not neutral secular, but avowedly atheist?
What font is this?
IT BROKE NEW GROUNDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
It just has one paragraph where the protagonist goes on an atheist rant, other than it, there's no religious undertones or themes in the novel.
Fuck's sake I hate Midnight Oil
Someone saw the first episode of Sword Art Online and decided to copy it and make it as reddit as possible
You aint seen nothing yet.
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You'd be surprised at the shit the sci-fi and LOL NERD POWER AMIRITE crowds will not only put up with, but applaud. It's enough to make capeshit look deep at times.
Based GRRM trying his best to ignore captain nostalgiamemes
Honestly I think at least 5% of Sup Forums could write a better book. But since the surname Cline has an Ashkenazi origin, it's sort of an open/shut case as to how this writer got picked up in the first place.
>But I don't wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.
I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:
Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world
is a woman who is smarter than you are.
wow
He probably still hates it, but it's where he gets work. You're not going to see him on stage playing Hamlet.
Me too, here's one (you) for you bruv.
Yes, avowedly atheist. I read read the book and it is complete bollocks.The main is literally an overweight, reddit-browsing, neckbeard who says 'XD there is no god XD'. I wanted to put the book down but it was just so bad I had to keep going. The actual structure of the puzzles in the book were lazy and there were no parts that were creative or original. My 'I'm such a nerd geeky XD' friend lent it to me and I had to pretend to like it.
How many layers of irony is this guy on?