should I live-tweet a reread of ‘Ready Player One’… (update: results in)

Sun, Mar 04, 2018

Twitter has spoken! With 54 percent of voters wishing to see me publicly torture myself, I will be doing the reread and the tweeting over the weekend of March 17-18th. (And when I’m done, I will of course post it all at here.) I’ll remind everyone as those days get closer.

PREVIOUS: 02.25.18:

…before the movie opens on March 29th (on both sides of the Atlantic)?

Twitter poll here:

Should I live-tweet a reread of #ReadyPlayerOne before the movie opens on March 29th (US/UK)? https://t.co/Qx7DYj2zww

— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) February 25, 2018

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RogerBW

Wed, Feb 28, 2018 9:16am

I quite enjoyed the book at the time, but the trailers for the film have reminded me just how trite much of it was. Also I’ve since made the mistake of reading Cline’s Armada.

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to RogerBW

Wed, Feb 28, 2018 6:43pm

I will save what I have to say about the book for the public reread. :-)

Dr. Rocketscience

reply to RogerBW

Wed, Feb 28, 2018 8:19pm

Is Armada bad? Is it “sophomore slump” bad or “whatever was good in the last book must have been a fluke” bad? I came out and I heard nothing about it. Not even pans.

I’m having issues with Andy Wier’s “Artemis”. His desire to give technical explanations, which served him well in “The Martian”, seem to be dragging a novella length mystery out to a novel length slog.

RogerBW

reply to Dr. Rocketscience

Thu, Mar 01, 2018 11:23am

Both of them suffer from trying to use the same tricks as the first book in a setting where they make less sense, and from self-sabotaging characters. I ended up despising Armada and feeling neutral to slightly negative about Artemis.
At greater length:

https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2017/08/Armada__Ernest_Cline.html https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2018/02/Artemis__Andy_Weir.html

Dr. Rocketscience

reply to RogerBW

Thu, Mar 01, 2018 7:28pm

Thanks for the links.

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Thu, Mar 01, 2018 10:16pm

Sure, would love to hear your take on it. I just read RPO a few months ago with my book club before we were aware of the movie development. I consider myself an American child of the 80s, but a pop culture expert I am not, and it felt like a lot of the mysteries went over my head. Fun adventure rollout though. And all the trite epiphanies that are “coming-of-age” spy-adventure sort of stuff are just what Steven Spielberg is good at. I do remember loving “Cloak & Dagger” as a kid.