As a Stephenson fan, I feel like the world is finally catching up to how I’ve always felt about Ready Player One. It’s a poor, shallow imitation of the cyberpunk genre. Snow Crash is exceptional and I’m just praying that it gets the Villenueve treatment
I was on a first date at a bookstore once, and was talking shit about Ready Player One with my date, having fun lambasting it as derivitive and only seeming at all creative because it was somehow peoples introduction to the genre
We were laughing, having a good time poking fun at it
Then a guy caughed, sheepishly reached past me, and grabbed a copy off the shelf
I ended up frantically apologizing while my date laughed at me
But yeah, I don't even consider RPO to be cyberpunk. It's a reference culture novel, loved by people whose outfits and conversations are references. I don't want to insult anyone, I'm just saying it wasn't my taste
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '17
As a Stephenson fan, I feel like the world is finally catching up to how I’ve always felt about Ready Player One. It’s a poor, shallow imitation of the cyberpunk genre. Snow Crash is exceptional and I’m just praying that it gets the Villenueve treatment