tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472627207351085411.post5736642206759425320..comments2023-11-02T07:36:10.776-04:00Comments on Parenthetical Asides: Gonna use almost all my tags on this post (Ready Player One)Dale Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13720028364651179526noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472627207351085411.post-79483239852009992212015-06-02T10:30:35.170-04:002015-06-02T10:30:35.170-04:00Sorry/not sorry? :)Sorry/not sorry? :)Dale Glaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720028364651179526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472627207351085411.post-46525212018789451252015-06-02T10:20:51.364-04:002015-06-02T10:20:51.364-04:00I've been meaning to read this for the longest...I've been meaning to read this for the longest time. Your review manages to make me want to read it more and not read it at all at the same time.Derrick Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16781081269516018422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472627207351085411.post-87675310099516184612012-02-02T13:36:34.335-05:002012-02-02T13:36:34.335-05:00I mean, I'm not going to back down from my ass...I mean, I'm not going to back down from my assessment of the book as literarily shallow, but neither would I ever shy away from assessing a Hostess Cupcake as nutritionally empty. But I eat Hostess Cupcakes all the time because they are frigging delicious, and if anyone asked me "Should I eat a Hostess Cupcake?" I would say of course you should. So, Ready Player One is silly brain candy, but in the end I think that's ok. I wouldn't want a steady diet of it, but no harm in throwing it in the mix. It takes a number of hours to read that you can count on one hand, which is a lot more forgivable than, say, a 900-page pomo experiment that fails artistically AND wastes a month of your time. If you were looking forward to reading it, I say go ahead and read it, but maybe with your expectations suitably adjusted. You may even end up enjoying it more for having pre-empted the disappointment of potential.Dale Glaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720028364651179526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472627207351085411.post-13678007502184116562012-02-02T12:55:37.443-05:002012-02-02T12:55:37.443-05:00I'd been looking forward to reading this one. ...I'd been looking forward to reading this one. Pity it's as shallow as that.<br /><br />The novel's world you describe is very reminiscent of the one in Philip K. Dick's "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich," where people would escape the misery of the crappy future by taking a drug that would mentally project them into a Barbie or Ken doll in a Malibu Dream House-esque playset. Dick went a bit more into those themes you brought up. It's a deeply, deeply weird read. (A shock, I know.) Well worth checking out.Harvey Jerkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07118848012122050416noreply@blogger.com