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What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate? (lemm.ee)
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[โ€“] 28 points 3 years ago (10 children)

Ready Player One. It wasn't the best book I've ever read but I enjoyed it.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago

    I loved the book and the movie. It's one of the few times I was glad the movie changed a lot from the book. It wouldn't have translated well and they were aware of that. They both stand well on their own. I'm looking forward to part 2.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Same. It's clearly by an inexperienced author but the story and moment-to-moment storytelling was neat.

    Even the movie was great IMO, clever way of modernizing the components of the novel for the audience the movie was intended for.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    The novel is already fairly modern, and they just totally reworked the story in ways it didn't need to be while also making the protagonists get into trouble by doing stupid shit instead of making the villains more intelligent or one step ahead, so that's always a net loss for me.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The book wasn't horrible. It was cliche, although that was sortof the point. I think there's a reason people had issues with representation or something in it too, but I don't remember. It's been a while. The movie was aweful.

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