This is going to be so f*cking EPIC!!

This is going to be so f*cking EPIC!!

>be me
>read a lot
>most literary stuff
>meat with cousine over thanksgiving
>user, you read a lot right?
>yes
>oh my god, there's this book that's so good, I think you'll love it, its called ready player one, no one else get it for user for christmas ok?

*Tips*

>meat with cousine
I think you should read some more.

fuck her

was the novel good?

Quick, someone post the picture

Imagine the cocaine fueled high that brought this book to the world.

I have to be honest, I think the film will be another plebeian-oriented, highly saturated and memetically dense film that's appeal will be solely centred around it's strong 80's culture

No. You know that Family Guy joke about Robot Chicken? Ready Player One is basically a whole book of that, but played straight.

>Implying the author is brave enough for drugs above ebin w33d

You would be surprised.

You tell me

No. It's a Kotaku article that never ends.

Don't be so ungrateful user.

in what way?

>american """""""""""""literature"""""""""""""

Oh God, please make it stop...it reads like a poorly formatted blog post by a teenage girl who's just decided to watch something other than Twilight for the first time.

Drugs - Magic dust makes the book write itself

ALSO IT WILL SELL 3 MILLION COPIES IN 24 HOURS IVE ALREADY CALLED MY BOY WE HAVE SET UP PRE PRODUCTION PLANS WE ARE GOING TO BE RICH FROM THIS

It's like American Psycho if instead of trying to sound smart and well read by dropping random (incorrect) references to cinema music and literature, Patrick Bateman did it by dropping random pop culture references.
And it's not self-aware like AP is. It's serious.

i read this book, the dialogue was pretty cringy but i overall enjoyed it. i actually thought that it would make a really fun movie but i thought that it would be impossible due to copyright limitations

i am actually looking forward to this movie, mostly because it has a real director working on it and not some meme-movie manchild, even though that's probably what it deserves

Let the '80s die for fuck's sake. What a shitfest of a decade that was.

i literally got pancreatic cancer reading this

>tfw I like vaporwave and synthwave and have to be associated with autistic 80's nostalgia

Goddamn OP, get laid. You must be one bitter motherfucker.

YEAH BRO
LOOK
NOSTALGIA
CARS
BACK TO THE FUTURE
MONEY

GIVE ME BACK MY COKE

CALL SONY

GONNA BE HELLA EPIC

Get over her already. Also clean your damn room.

DUDE

OLOOOK
NOSTALGAI

HAHAHHAHAH

when the movie was announced there were a lot of redditors on reddit going "Oh I read the book" and "Wow I wonder if it will be like the BOOK"

spoiler alert redditors, books based on video games do NOT count as real books.

How do you know there were so many redditors on reddit doing that?

Confucius say: Boy meet girl in park. Boy park meat in girl.

God no
Even setting aside the references, which dominate the book and genuinely never stop popping up from page 1 until the end, the entire thing is written at about a 3rd grade reading level and has a narrative structure that would be considered basic by the standards of most YA novels; The characters are all unlikeable and paper thin, the main character is clearly just the author's stand in, there's never any tension whatsoever, the references never stop, every major plot event centers around the main character playing/acting out a semi-obscure game/movie, all the dialogue sounds like it was written by an old man who's horribly out of touch, there's genuinely no real character development or even a main theme, and it never stops feeling like the author just wanted an avenue to tell you how much he likes Rush and old video games. I don't know how it got popular, or how the fuck they got Spielberg to put his name on it

thanks charlie chanon

>muh reddit
we now recognize you as one of us... you are now in the elite "oldfag" club. shoop da woop over 9000 internetz

...

That way.

even worse is when they claim to have read the book after listening to the audiobook (which was narrated by king soyboy himself, wil wheaton)

Ironically, the audio book version read by Wil Wheaton is the best version and will remain so after the movie is released. I say that with a straight face and all seriousness.

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Yall want some good ol books to read check out my nigga Brandon Sanderson

The novel isn't even his magnum opus

Look at his poetry

LOOK AT IT

I made it halfway through

>meat with cousine
What did he mean by this?

nigger

JFC

i kinda get where he's coming from on this, i would not want to be in a relationship with an airheaded bimbo, but i mean when it comes to cranking one out to something on my screen, i'm really not interesting in getting invested in the girl's personality... why bother when she goes away as soon as i close the tab. my gf/wife is different because it's a person who i will conceivably spend the rest of my life and possibly have children with

Audiobooks are nothing to be ashamed of. The only real difference there is that you get the reader's pronunciation of character names, which may differ to how the way you would have pronounced it if you were reading it. Also not knowing how to spell these names on account of not actually seeing them.

No, but unironically it might make a fun film.

I do them on commutes since they are 40 minutes and the bus is packed.
I dont care what people say.

>My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.
>My porn starlets will be too busy working on their PhD to go to the gym.

I like them because they are more akin to sitting around telling stories. Though, it really really hinges on the author. Some are just shitty readers and some are reading gods. I favor he ones who can do voices for different characters. Though, the "World War Z" book was different because each character actually had a different actor reading their part (waaaay better than that shitty movie).

>fourth line
I'm out

This has to be satire

Listened to that too. Was very enjoyable. If you like the different actors thing check out Graphic Audio. They've got a good selection of fantasy stuff which I've gone through. Listen to the Mistborn trilogy from their collection. It's amazing, they have a whole cast, sound effects, background music, ambient noises. You can find the trilogy on Audiobook bay which is where I usually get mine from unless you're minted and can pay for the download off the graphic audio website.

Did this get published? Was he recompensed for writing this?
If yes, robots take note. This could have been you. Earning money through incel drivel.

Good recommendations. I've heard some of GA's stuff. I also recommend stuff read by "Luke Daniels", such as "The Ember War" if you like space sci-fi. I use ABB too.

You tell me.

>didn't recognize any of those character names
>it's actually Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

No, only the audiobook is good of it. It breezes through those lists of stuff in a manner that is actually pleasing.

This gives me a strange feeling of sadness and anger

thats not ready player one moron

Isn't this trying to say that in the future pop culture will become what Bach/Beethoven/Dostoievsky etc. are for us now?

Or maybe it is saying that greek gods were the capeshit of ancient eras

Idk man, it is hard to believe the writer is to be read literaly

once again you guys don't recognize sarcasm

This is like copypasta

>cringey poverty-stricken nerd
>gf is a fat supergrrrl with facial birthmark
>best mate turns out to be a fat black dyke
>retard-tier dialog
>muh nostalgia
the end

Anyone who's actually read the book knows this would be better as a one hour, ten episode limited series

>and of course... Kevin Smith
couldn't read on from there

It's going to be nearly impossible to sit through two hours of this shit, you want ten?

>tfw i want this movie to succeed so more people become open to the idea of VR

>People think the book is cringe
>They haven't even heard the audiobook voiced by Wil Wheaton
I highly reccomend it. He reads it so bad and with the most obnoxious character voices that I'm pretty sure he was just trying to be self aware of how bad the book is.

Anyone who's actually read the book knows that the entire thing is a waste of time and would be better off forgotten

Did Neil Breen write this?

I feel like this could have been an interesting book if Cline examined why obsessing over pop culture is stupid, but he had to go and write this completely sincerely, didn't he?

>he refers to women he finds unattractive as "objects" then whines about misogyny nine lines later

You know they couldnt get the rights to half of the stuff, its going to be shit as fuck

The funniest shit about this book is how author created a pretty dark and disturbing world and didn't even realize it because 80S ARE AWESOME MAN REFERENCES REFERENCES.


Earth has gone to shit and everyone's just sitting online and not trying to fix it in any way, there's no new culture and all young people are essentially in a cult where they all read, listen and watch things only from 80s and every single one of them LOVES IT, nobody thinks "wow, this cheesy movie fucking sucks" - nope, they all love the same things as some old asshole.

>and of course, Kevin Smith.

I hope at least one of these people sues and halts development of the film

>meat with cousine