A lot of stuff has changed since the aughts and most not of it for good some of the things. I think what's happened is that there's been an increase in folks having a platform to critique stuff that should be critiqued but this books version of nostalgia is not interested in that type of critique. American chopper me has broken your brain, he says.
Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narrowness of the characters' "exhaustive" knowledge of 80s popular culture, and why the critical response to this book has shifted so much in just a few short years.
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