Read the gross fake-woke excerpt from Ready Player Two about the protag being very cool about someone being trans because he'd watched a lot of porn and as mad as I wanted to be about the shitty fake-woke bullshit, I couldn't get past the fact that
Cline writes like a fucking high schooler
There is literally nothing redeeming about Cline's work, ESPECIALLY not the prose
@witchfynder_finder that was definitely the thing that I noticed the most - the prose fails on both the moment-to-moment level AND on the paragraph level AND on the telling-a-worthwhile-story level
@lizardsquid It's literally all bad!!!
@witchfynder_finder it's astoundingly shocking!
How on earth did the first book even find any success if it's written like this!
@lizardsquid It was kind of a free-form class the prof was teaching about sci-fi and philosophy and we read some real gems in there, I think RPO was included as a way to kind of cater to any normies who might have wandered in, but the only way I KNEW about the class was from taking Medieval Philosophy with him the previous semester so honestly the inclusion still boggles me
@witchfynder_finder @lizardsquid gotta establish a baseline for other things to look good to in comparison
@lizardsquid I know it's a common thing to say among Big Brain Folks, but most people really will just read anything
I read RPO for a COLLEGE COURSE