"I feel like we're still figuring out as you know like an American audience how to how to be fans of that stuff without it being overly appropriate if we're disrespectful" "There's just a lot of bowing and calling people something sawn in this book. which like that was a huge part of friends growing up where that was like part of what they were into" There is so much more to talk about when talking about what the book is wrong about or unaware of then you're talking about oh like mecca Godzilla and Ultraman like fight at the endYeah no you know what I mean yeah for sure I try not to be unfair to it because I am innately less
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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