Ep 293 - Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narrowness of the characters' "exhaustive" knowledge of 80s popular culture, and why the critical response to this book has shifted so much in just a few short years.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, Crack a Mountain Dew and pop in a quarter.
0:44.4	It's time to level up with overdue a podcast about the books you've been meeting to read.
0:48.4	My name is Craig.
0:49.4	My name is Doritos, Cool Ranch, Andrew brought to you by Surge.
0:54.8	This week we're going to talk 8-bit about Ready Player One by Ernest Client, a book that's
0:59.0	just been mashing everyone's buttons since 2011.
1:01.9	This is a co-op podcast so Andrew's going to tell me about the book as I'm just a
1:06.0	new.
1:07.0	We're going to circle strafe some of the book's big themes like nostalgia, gamer saviors,
1:11.1	and dig dug a bit into why the book was such a critical hit.
1:14.1	We'll also talk about how modern nerd experience points to issues folks have had with it surrounding
1:19.4	the recent movie adaptation.
1:21.2	It seemed to channel a lot of gamers joy at the time, but does it stick?
1:25.9	So you didn't want to do my intro because you'd spent 5 hours writing this.
1:30.3	Correct.
1:31.3	What I am getting.
1:32.3	Okay, that's cool.
1:33.3	Just making sure that you know that we're here to talk about Ready Player One.
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