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RE: Booze, Fatalism, and Cyberpunk Morality in The Red Strings Club
Would you put Ready Player One in the genre too? Or is that just too self-referential and overly steeped in popular culture?
Would you put Ready Player One in the genre too? Or is that just too self-referential and overly steeped in popular culture?
RPO is so nostalgia drenched it's insulting. Learning that Wil Wheaton did the audiobook actually made me lose respect for him. There's nostalgia, and then there's the marketing of condescension.
I thought Ready Player One was a decent book (the movie looks terrible though). There is quite a bit of nostalgia but I'm not sure I see the link between nostalgia and condescension. I wouldn't want to listen to anything Wil Wheaton narrates. I saw him at a convention once and he really came across as a condescending asshole. All in the eye of the beholder I suppose.
It's more in the marketing, the expectation that you're going to like something simply because you get the references. The recent movie posters feel like seeing your parents trying to reference memes and thinking it makes them cool.
I guess that explains it. I saw the book at a bookstore a couple years ago and picked it up because it looked interesting. I never saw any marketing stuff until recently with the movie coming out. The movie doesn't look that good to me. I might watch it but it will be a rental.