When it came out, everyone from Entertainment Weekly to the HuffPost to NPR was like, this is a pretty good book. It's hard to talk about that in a vacuum because we have to kind of prep people if they don't really know why that might be. The New York Times was one that said it's pretty witty and interesting, but that gaming had overwhelmed everything else about this book. That is getting closer to what the modern reception of it is.
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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