/lit/ - Literature

>finally convince myself to start reading Ulysses
>find out I have to read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first

>>9050113
As much as I dislike Ready Player One (and admittedly I liked it when I first read it, it just really doesn't hold up under criticism), it's fucking high art compared to SAO.

Best way I could describe it is that Ready Player One is a tumblr/facebook celebration of fandom. It reviles in gen-X pop culture, it's like putting on your Thriller jacket and NES Powerglove and driving your van (with a wizard and barbarian babe painted on it and a Iron Maiden mixtape in the tape deck) to the arcade for the Street Fighter tournament.

Comparatively, SAO, like most LN stuff (and especially "litRPG"/isekai style stuff), is poorly written puerile nerd power fantasies for sad little boys and even sadder grown men.

>get some random scifi book from the library
>it's another "photon swords" and "spacecoach ambush at nebula gulch" false-SF one