I just also feel like we're somehow stuck in 80s nostalgia. Now TV presents a better argument that we're not there, but I don't know. There's already a revival of that. To think about how this book is interfacing with the 70s and 80s: It matches Ernest Klein's personal experience of the 70s & 80s.
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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