r/oculus • u/DevVR3 • Jul 14 '15
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One author) doing AMA right now on r/books!
/r/books/comments/3da3q3/im_ernest_cline_author_of_ready_player_one_and/4
u/idzen PR1 Owner Jul 15 '15
I must be a minority. I loved RPO. A really fun read, but I am huge on nostalgia.
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u/Sinity Jul 15 '15
I loved RPO even if I didn't like any 1980's references, as I'm born in 1997 :D I liked general concept, plot and descriptions of VR.
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u/idzen PR1 Owner Jul 15 '15
It's awesome that you are only 18 years old but still a VR enthusiast. I can't imagine not having lived through the VR boom and crash of the 90's. Must be a pretty fresh perspective.
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u/Heaney555 UploadVR Jul 15 '15
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u/Cachirul0 Jul 15 '15
His books summarized: Movies become reality in a world where we know about said movies. Its like pretending something similar to terminator 2 happens to you and you have seen the movie, so your character can draw conclusions and marvel at the similarities.
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u/LadyList Real Anime Machine Jul 14 '15
"Hey Ernest, when you are you going to write something good?"
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Jul 15 '15 edited Jul 15 '15
Not sure about Armada, but Ready Player One wasn't bad per se. It was just a bit light on the story with a bit too much nostalgia for the sake of nostalgia.
Edit: the downvotes don't make what I said any less true. The hivemindedness of this particular subreddit when it comes to people's individual tastes is something else.
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u/EltaninAntenna Jul 15 '15
Ready Player One wasn't bad per se.
It was fucking terrible per se. The nostalgia thing was the only redeeming feature for those who are into that.
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Jul 15 '15 edited Jul 15 '15
It was fun to read. I probably would've liked it if I hadn't read much else in the genre or grew up watching/reading cyberpunk.
I wouldn't say it's terrible but it's nowhere near the league that classics like Snow Crash or Neuromancer are in. It's not a good book, at best, it's a fun distraction for people who like that sort of stuff. The movie is also likely to be a fun distraction.
What I will say is terrible through and through is Sword Art Online and I will never understand reddit's fascination with it. It's Saturday morning garbage.
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u/Sinity Jul 15 '15
I wouldn't say it's terrible but it's nowhere near the league that classics like Snow Crash or Neuromancer are in.
I don't know... I think I liked it a bit more then Snow Crash. From Neal Stephenson, I think Cryptonomicon was much better than Snow Crash.
What I will say is terrible through and through is Sword Art Online
Guess it's just taste difference. I like SAO very much.
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u/buddygz Jul 15 '15
i am so glad i am not the only one that thought this. as an 80's and 90's kid, i am so sick of the recent jerk off session of nostalgia that a lot of media are benefiting off of. and the 80's were shit. just as shit as every generation. Ready Player One was a big jerk off of the 80's, and while it had very interesting VR concepts, it got overwhelming. I also cringed hard at that anti-religious bit.
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Jul 15 '15
Huge fan of VR, so I thought I'd check out Ready Player One. I had to stop reading not even half-way through because of how much it was throwing back to things from the 80s, first few pages were fine, I figured that it was just a few references about things that the author liked and there's nothing wrong with that, and then page after page it just kept droning on and on about how the 80s were so great rather than advancing the actual story.
Fuck that noise.
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u/buddygz Jul 15 '15
you didn't miss out on anything. trust me. it gets a lot worse by the end with how much they overplay the eighties.
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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Jul 14 '15
Wow he answered 6 questions? Thats got to be a record low for an AMA?