There's just a lot of feints at a much darker, Black Mirror-type reality going on in "Ready Player One" -- like that his two Japanese friends are hikikomori, they literally never leave their rooms -- that just exist weirdly in the background without being explored
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There is literally a whole page worth of just talking about masturbation in that book
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A good number of the stuff in that book that would have made for way more interesting plotlines, but instead of exploring the dystopic real world we get references out the ass
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They aren't even references most of the time, just lists of things.
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i remember reading the book for a college class and making excuses for it, trying to say it “shows the dark side of nostalgia” but on a reread there really is no substance to the narrative beyond references and Wade being already prepared for every problem he ever encounters
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I mean, you weren't wrong, but I don't think it was showing the dark side *deliberately*
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There is a moment when he goes really specific about how much and which type of porn he watches and its really disturbing but kinda cool
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There's absolutely an underlying trauma narrative for pretty much every character, but the constant references and shoddy narrative hold it back. Fun novel, but not a good one. 2012 me liked it a lot more than 2020 me.
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I've come to the conclusion that it was a book for a very specific moment in time that has long since passed. Not that it didn't have problems *then*, but they were a lot easier to excuse or look over
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