No.14254
What did you think of this movie and book?
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No.14255
Dreck in every way. Didn't we have discuss this before?
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No.14257
>>14255
It's topical, so, sure.
Disclaimers: One, I am of the generation who grew up with the cultural larding Cline uses. Two, I'm not all high literary form all the time. Literary types typically knock pop in reflex. I like my genera trash too.
>>14254
I made it 60 pages in, and gave up. Liquid chloroform. Pop culture is more fun to participate in today than to read about as endless backdrop. By comparison, as for mixing old and new, Ian M. Banks does 1970's SciFi merged with modern sensibilities well. Alex Garland's The Beach shows how nostalgic references can be entertainingly woven into a story. I ought to be tripping all over RPO, but Cline just doesn't do it for me.
Haven't done the movie. I may though for, … pause a moment and you might hear the strident protest of the late Michael Chichton against what I am about to say. I suspect RPO is one of a handful of novels vastly improved by translation to a visual medium via the (to a typical author) quixotic editing process enforced by that team of creative artists required for film.
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No.14259
>>14257
The book itself didn't reference any written stories. Showing videogames kind of misses the point and what Cline didn't focus on what specifically he liked about WarGames.
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No.14268
Turned into Reddit on page 17. Didn't get better from there.
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No.14269
It's "Harry Potter but for grown-ups," as its back-cover blurb puts it - for "grown-ups," not for adults. It's "fellow Redditors," the book.
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No.14270
>>14269
>kids get to go to a parallel reality where magic is real and everything is like in the Good Old Days of vaguely preindustrial times of England but more convenient
>grown-ups get to use some VR shit where they can pretend magic is real and everything is like in the Good Old Days™ of vaguely pre-second millenium pop-culture but with more "diversity"
Rather horrifying.
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No.14271
I've stopped reading at the Wikipedia's synopsis of it. I'm binning it at "didn't read it, didn't like it."
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No.14280
When a novel starts me off by saying that global warming made everything shit I tend to bin it quick. I haven't been able to stand fiction talking about it, not after I read those Maximum Ride books.
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No.14282
>>14254
I haven't seen the movie, (nor do I plan too), but the book is genuinely one of the worst things I have ever read.
The author's writing is bad but I think the book would have at least been serviceable if he hadn't crammed muh pop culture and entry level politics/social commentary into every other paragraph. He doesn't even try to weave in the references, it's literally just him listing off things then building dialogue around it.
It's popular because the reddit crowd will read it to make it seem like they know cool stuff and enjoy sci fi, it's the same when you see people saying "___ is so lovecraftian xd" and then can't name any of his stories.
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No.14293
>>14282
That's not only more trash than the movie is, it's also even more jewish.
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No.14302
I read the book when I was like 14 and I didn't like it much, but I didn't dislike it neither, yes, now I can look back and see how bad was it, but it's thought to be a book for 12-14 year olds to read whit out effort and easily enjoy it.
About the film, well, I liked it, yes, the script was garbage, but that wasn't the point the point was to make a lot of cool cga shit and come on it was cool.
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