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hey i'm elise! i'm 21 which means i learned how to read :) i like sonic and omori and definitely some other things too i swear


nicky
@nicky

i love bad literature so much. i love when someone has the confidence to write a novel but none of the talent or skill to back it up. i cant get to sleep tonight so im finally diving into Ready Player One and it's like... actively painful. it's clumsy and awkward and completely up its own ass. but i'd be lying if i said i wasn't having a good time!!

and this isn't a "so bad it's good" thing either, this is slop. this is less than slop. i'm on chapter 4 and i already fucking hate it. i love how i hate it. it makes me feel like i could get back into writing because i know i can do better than this. Ernest Cline is a hack. i have so much to learn from him



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in reply to @nicky's post:

To date RPO is the only book to ever earn the distinction of being flung completely across the room by me not once but TWICE, so revolted was I by its crimes against the written word

my ex told me "you have to read this! it's so good, and really funny" and after about 30 pages I was like, "wait, but you think I'm funny, what am I doing with my whole life" full-blown existential crisis mode

The quality of the writing is atrocious, but as a white male capital-g Gamer who grew up in the 90s and 00s diving through the 80s media enjoyed by the generation before me while dreaming of a VR-enriched future... it's still absolutely atrocious slop. Slop that directly pandered to me through "Oh hey, I get that reference. Oh hey, another reference I get. Hah, that's cute how those references have been mixed together. Oh hey this bit is about one of my favourite movies. That's an obscure super robot." I basically see it like the low-grade YouTube Poop of writing, just a mishmash of references assembled into something vaguely original, that is in fact just riffing on other, better works.

I read rpo on my e-ink tablet, which allowed me to scrawl "ew, fuck" in huge block letters across a page without actually defiling a book. and then it got a movie adaptation? by steven spielberg?!!?

full disclosure I remember having fun watching the movie. I don't know if I'd watch it again, but I've definitely seen worse things

i read rpo because i worked in tournaments and a coworker recommended it as an insight into the mindset of competitive gamers and to this day i have no idea which part he was thinking of

in reply to @kukkurovaca's post:

i think rpo was not that bad...
armada was kinda worse i'd like to add.

ernest cline my witty lad,
you ever heard of otherland by a williams, tad?

City, River, Mountain, Sea!
these books tell of a great journey!

compared to otherland, rpo was but a jest.
if you enjoyed lotr for the trip, rpo might make you depressed

listening to crusher made it easy to swallow.
can and do fully recommend otherland though.