Book #3 of 2021: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One #2) I liked the first Ready Player One novel more than I know a lot of people did, for although I’m sympathetic to the criticisms of gatekeeping and mansplaining, the earnestness of its nerdy passions and fun VR action sequences were enough …
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Movie #7 of 2018: Ready Player One (2018) As a disclaimer, I really like the novel this movie is based on, which I think gets a bad rap for some GamerGate-style gatekeeping associations that aren’t really present in the narrative itself. It’s also a story that seems really hard to adapt faithfully, and I think …
Book #50 of 2016: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline An exciting blockbuster of a novel that absolutely deserves the Steven Spielberg adaptation it’s now getting, Ready Player One tells the story of a group of video game nerds going up against an evil corporation to follow a series of obscure clues left in the …
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