/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17453289]

was it kino?

[Anonymous No.17453300]

>>17453289
A thread died for this

[Anonymous No.17453301]

>>17453289
>was it kino

[Anonymous No.17453311]

>>17453300
good

[Anonymous No.17453333]

>>17453301
>le soifuc meem

[Anonymous No.17453350]

>>17453301
just like everything else, /lit/ liked it before it became popular

>>17453289
yeah its a decent read

[Anonymous No.17453359]

>>17453350
>decent
explain nigger

[Anonymous No.17453416]

so its true /lit/ likes actual pozz'd garbage. Back to reading Bearstien bears for us all then.

[Anonymous No.17453501]

>>17453289
the entire book was basically the author self fellatiating his knowledge of 80s pop culture, if you're from that time or just like 80s nastolgia the book is probably tolerable, as someone that was born in the 90s I found the book to be very boring and didn't care for any of the references. Its very tropey, the premise is an interesting twist on the treasure hunt plotline but it isn't well executed in the slightest.

[Anonymous No.17453510]

>>17453289
ha
look at that leg

[Anonymous No.17453684]

>>17453501
Pretty much this. The book runs almost entirely on all the pop culture references Cline makes throughout the novel. If you don’t know or don’t care about that type of stuff, you probably won’t find it very entertaining.

[Anonymous No.17453703]

>>17453684
I knew nothing about the pop culture references and still enjoyed it nonetheless

[Anonymous No.17453732]

>>17453289
I prefer the author's "poem" about porn for nerds.

[Anonymous No.17453736]

>I could name all 151 pokemon (including Mew), I knew every adventure the Rugrats went on, every villian of the week in the original power rangers (originally Super Sentai), I could recite every spell in the Harry Potter books, I knew every time r/unexpectedgimli posted "any my axe!"
>I wasn't going to let anything get in my way

[Anonymous No.17453744]

>>17453350
>just like everything else, /lit/ liked it before it became popular
Lying is a sin, anon.
Also it’s abhorrently bad, not decent. The kind of person who writes like pic related should have their hands broken to prevent anything more

[Anonymous No.17453751]

>>17453744
I will dictate my next novel. You can't stop me.

[Anonymous No.17453761]

this post post irony shit is uninteresting

stop it

[Anonymous No.17453764]

>>17453744
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.17453835]

>>17453764
>that infodump
>those unnecessary parentheses
>the ridiculous amount of nerd jargon
>“Hey guys, wasn’t the 80’s COOOOOL?”

How the fuck did this get published? I’ve seen fanfiction with better writing than this. And do you have anything else to show? This is honestly kind of funny.

[Anonymous No.17453851]

>>17453736

Well done

[Anonymous No.17453855]

>>17453835
There’s plenty more

[Anonymous No.17453862]

>>17453289

Lighthearted entertaining read. Bonus points if you’re from that era and are an overall gamerfag.

Do not read Ready Player Two

[Anonymous No.17453880]

>>17453289

Daemon by Daniel Suarez is way better. It’s like RPO but rated R and it’s AR instead of VR. No gay 80s reference and the main character doesn’t simp over a chick. More rape and murder also.

[Anonymous No.17453892]

>>17453835
Naturally, he’s a coomer

[Anonymous No.17453902]

>>17453892

Dam Z you are the man!

[Anonymous No.17453912]

>>17453835
More badass recognition of pop culture nerd crap, what a hunk.
>>17453862
Ernest Cline apologists are not welcome on /lit/, go back.

[Anonymous No.17453925]

>>17453912

Not defending him. Rp2 sucked balls and armada was bad too. I’m just not going to jump on the /lit/ bandwagon and bash him for being a redditfag. I liked the story. Cal me a faggot whatever.

[Anonymous No.17453928]

I prefer the NEET written, right-wing version of it.

[Anonymous No.17453939]

>>17453855
>>17453892
>>17453912
Real pussy slayer, this man.

[Anonymous No.17453972]

>>17453835
Pic related is probably the most infamous segment of the book, this lasts several pages.
>>17453925
>Not defending him.
You describe the book as “a light-hearted and entertaining read” I’ll admit that it’s entertaining, but only in the way that Chris-Chan or the l33tstr33t boys are entertaining. It’s entertaining in that finding someone so lacking in self awareness and willing to publicly humiliate themselves is funny. Saying that the book is not garbage is defending it given how bad it is.
>I’m just not going to jump on the /lit/ bandwagon and bash him for being a redditfag.
Maybe you should jump on the having-a-modicum-of-taste bandwagon and hate him for being a pathetic cringy retard who writes abhorrently.
>I liked the story. Cal me a faggot whatever.
Faggot does not begin to describe the kind of person who likes this book.

[Anonymous No.17453975]

>>17453289
yes, this and listening to leetstreat boys is the peak of 21st century enlightenment.

[Anonymous No.17454017]

Watch out theists, Ernest Cline is coming for you next.

[Anonymous No.17454028]

>>17453972

>wahhh some redditfag is a successful published author and I post on /lit/ about how my taste is so refined.

Can you be a bigger stereotypical faggot?

[Anonymous No.17454052]

>>17454028
>dude be nice to everyone who’s successful even if every person who isn’t mentally handicapped can see that their “art” is absolute dogshit
This attitude is that of a bigger faggot.
Why do you keep mentioning Reddit? It smells of insecure newfag, your obvious Redditspacing makes me think you’re trolling though.

[Anonymous No.17454057]

>>17454028
Not him, but being published doesn’t free him from critique. After all, you don’t need to be a chef to know when food tastes off. In fact, being a published work should invite criticism, since it is a product people are buying and they should be free to share opinions on it so as to give potential buyers an idea about what’s in store should they make the purchase.

[Anonymous No.17454392]

>>17453835
>How the fuck did this get published?
See
>“Hey guys, wasn’t the 80’s COOOOOL?”

[Anonymous No.17454506]

here's his other book, "Armada"

[Anonymous No.17454510]

[Anonymous No.17454532]

>>17454506
This really is worse than fanfiction

[Anonymous No.17454565]

>>17454028
not him either,
Its not a jelousy thing, its just as someone who was kinda into this shit which he quotes off, its extremely grading. its like he compiled all of the baseline pop-culture shit people liked but then took the most mind numbingly retarded absolute pile of nothing crap on it. its like he quotes shit just to say that he quoted it. he wouldnt bring up gundam because it was particularly pertinent or how someone who was actually into the fandom would talk, but he did it just so that he could namedrop gundam, You kinda get what im putting down? its like what a 5 year old tries to do to sound cool, being as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle.

[Anonymous No.17454687]

>>17454028

I shill F Gardner all day and I still hate Ernest Cline. He just feels obnoxious. He looks obnoxious. His book is just a list of 80's references. It's bad, but not an endearing bad like F Gardner. F Gardner tried, Ernest Cline didn't. That's why I hate Ernest Cline. Also I hate the kind of people who like Ernest Cline. The kind of people who like F Gardner have a sophistication to them. They like shilling him more than they like his books. The kind of people who like Ernest Cline are mouth breathers. They actually like his books. The shilling isn't being done for fun. They like remembering some random 80's movie. They don't know the books they're shilling are bad. They can't even tell. In sum I hate Ernest Cline and I hate his books and I hate his fans and you should all read F Gardner (although I haven't yet).

[Anonymous No.17454950]

>>17454510
>This is not a good time to be wasting our time.
Oh blech

[Anonymous No.17454984]

>>17454510
>This is not a good time to be wasting our time

[Anonymous No.17455649]

>>17454506
>>17454510
Does Cline actually have any talent apart from referencing pop culture? This is just.... ugh. I bet like half the anons here could write better shit than this.

[Anonymous No.17455788]

>>17453764
this is hilarious

[Anonymous No.17455985]

>>17453972
This gives me comfort in my writting skills, thank you for this

[Anonymous No.17457117]

>>17455649
>I bet like half the anons here could write better shit than this.
The flash fiction and crit threads prove that this is true, the only writings I’ve seen on /lit/ as bad as Ernest Cline’s are schizoposts by ideologically deluded teenagers

[Anonymous No.17457165]

>>17454510
>my own jaw dropped open like a castle drawbridge
Bravo.

[Anonymous No.17457223]

[Anonymous No.17457232]

>>17453289
No it was kniga and then they made kino

[Anonymous No.17457248]

>>17454510
>my own jaw dropped open like a castle drawbridge

[Anonymous No.17458230]

>>17457232
Based