Episode 91: Ready Player 2 – A Constant Loop of Push It

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 130 minutes

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After countless pages of Worldbuilding and freeing child slaves when our hero felt like it, Ernest Cline finally lets some things happen in this section. The action kicks off when a Gunter and a Sharter listen to a Morissey song in silence and it doesn’t let up from there! By the time we’re done, there’s … Continue reading "Episode 91: Ready Player 2 – A Constant Loop of Push It"

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, 372 pages, is something we're doing.
0:19.0	Hey, 372 pages is something we wish this book were, which it is not.
0:28.1	Much longer than that.
0:29.7	I am Michael J. Nelson along with Connor Lestoka.
0:32.3	Hello, Connor.
0:33.0	We're talking about the Ready Player 2, right?
0:35.2	That's 365 pages.
0:38.2	Is it? Yeah. Oh, I'm looking, you know what? I've got the E thing. Yeah. I'm looking at, so it's my fault.
0:45.7	It's the formatting of my e-book makes it look much, much, much longer.
0:50.5	138,000 pages. That's the word count, Mike. No, no, hang on here. Let me give you the page count. I'm at the line. I'm at the penguin random house imprint at the end. Yeah. 493 pages. Okay. Weird. Yeah. That's just, it's a format thing. All right. So one of us wishes it were 372 pages. One of us hopes that it is not.
1:12.0	Well, I kind of wish it was because then it would be,
1:14.0	would have been a,
1:15.0	then it would have been a sort of a possible middle finger to us.
1:18.5	I'm not sure.
1:20.1	How did they miss that?
1:21.5	Just in terms of why not to do it?
1:24.5	You're a couple pages away.
1:26.5	Why not shut out the, the podcast with a couple dozen iTunes reviews who have devoted 20 hours to talking about how terrible an author you are?
1:36.6	He has many other references.
1:38.9	Why?
1:39.1	What's one more?
1:41.1	Well, I mean, giving people the satisfaction, I suppose.
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