/lit/ - Literature

>>8869039
I'd also like to remind everyone that none of you reading this will ever make a minuscule portion of the cash this man has accumulated thanks to this book.

>>8843703
>>8843703
Yeah it's Ready Player One

Reposting some excerpts from an archived thread, I audibly cringed towards the bottom of pic related.

>>8560089
If you get enough intellectual distance from how painfully garbage every moment of the book is, you start to notice the little things.

For instance:
All global commerce takes place in an MMORPG with open PVP and permanent character death - if you lag out and get killed by a kobold your real life bank account gets deleted

This VR simulation as replaced the Internet, as in people would rather get in their X-wing, fly to Planet eBay, walk in the eBay megatower, pick up an item and walk out, causing the real life item to be mailed to their house. Instead of, you know, typing in ebay.com and clicking a few times

The OASIS Corporation is worth $240 billion in spite of having over eight billion regular users and being the singular entertainment, education, news and finance center of the entire world (right now Apple is worth $600 billion, Google is worth $550 billion and Microsoft is worth $440 billion)

Read the enclosed excerpt and then remember that at this point in the story a murderous corporate raider is on the very brink of a successful hostile takeover

Also Wil Wheaton is president of the internet (because he's doing such a kickass job).