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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
looks like the movie is going to spend a lot more time on life in the Oasis than I'd hoped.
I thought the most interesting thing about the books was the interactions in real life and how he navigated that.
As for the book itself, eh, it was a little too 'young adult fiction' for my tastes. Had too much of that teenage love angst and Twilight vibe to it. By about 2/3 of the way in, I realized I was just reading it because I was pot committed and not because I was actually enjoying it.
But it had a lot of interesting movie potential (building the world could be very cool), it just looks like they tipped the balance too much towards VR based on the trailer.
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I loved the book. And I generally don't like YA stuff.
I did not, however, like Cline's next book ("Armada"). I didn't even finish it.
Where RP1 actually worked the pop culture stuff into the story, it felt like in Armada he was just throwing out nostalgic things for the sake of doing so. It got to the point where it was embarrassingly obvious that the references were contrived just to make the audience happy.