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Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you? (piefed.zip)
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[–] 81 points 9 months ago (16 children)

Ready player one. If I wanted to read about a guy masturbating over memorizing 1980s Wikipedia I'd just go to forums.

It was the most boring Mary Sue-esque trash and I have no idea why it was so popular

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  • [–] 39 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I was a third of the way through and realized it kinda sucked. I did stick it out to the end though.

    One of the plot points has the main character literally act out scenes from classic movies. It's never a good idea to remind the reader that there's better entertainment that they could be enjoying right now.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I forced myself to finish foolishly hoping the ending would blow my mind. Now people keep telling me the movie is even better but I'm like that's such a low bar I'll just go read Annihilation again or something

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    This is exactly what happened to me. I was reading it for a while like okay, I guess this is kind of fun, and then a third of the way through I thought "oh wait, this is just kind of boring".

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I like the part where they figured out the previously undiscovered secret in the race was to drive backwards. I tried that shit in Mario Kart when I was 8, you're telling me NOBODY had tried it in that game before?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I still remember exactly how the announcer enunced "You're Going The Wrong Way!"

    I haven't read the book, but yeah that really broke immersion for me in the movie.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    The book's first puzzle is solved by Wade playing the arcade game Joust against a bot. Then when he wins, he's dropped into the movie WarGames, replacing Matthew Broderick's character, and he has to act out every scene to progress.

    Seriously, that's it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I thought the movie was kinda fun. Never read the book though.

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