Real(?!) Literature - Ready Player One

[Damaris1034]

Dude, Ladyhawke is one of my favorite 80s movies. Screw you Aech!

[OpportunityStrikes]

At first I thought you were reading a really bad, but well-written, fanfic of something.

And then I realized it was a published book.

[KuraiKoyoyoyama]

Listening to this dramatic reading with that whistle song from Deadly Premonition in the background...

[callmephilattitude]

You just know Ernest Cline thinks he's the Quentin Tarantino of nerd dialogue.

[DarkHarpuia]

That... god damn. I wonder how many copies this shit sold.

[Laramas]

thums up if this made u cry

[SilentStormShadow]

Hey, I think I read a review of this book in Times magazine.

...huh.

[Kleshchevko]

When you stopped reading I was like "What? Is that all? I want more!" Good job, SGF!

[Beldiun]

Hopefully a sneak peak of some books on tape, SGF narrating with Betty White co-narrating. I'd buy them!

(Remove, the Youtube edit button!)

[RainWizard483]

Read Slaughterhouse Five!

[LDairyMilk]

This was such a great book. If you've read it and liked it, I'd recommend the movie "Fanboys". The guy who wrote "Ready Player One" wrote the screenplay for it. It got a limited release in theaters, which is a shame cause it's such a great movie. A group of friends take a road trip to break into Skywalker ranch to steal an advanced copy of SW: Episode 1.

[FatalKitsune]

Ready Player One is an excellent book. Anyone who likes gaming or 80's movies should give it a read. Or pester Supergreatfriend to read the entire thing aloud.

[mrtotallyawesome]

ahahahahahaha that last line is amazing. I love you SGF.

[ZhilTP911]

Sounds like a good book.

[fofalooza]

No. No no no no. *sigh* Does it at least get better? Although, if you did a reading of it, I would probably enjoy that

[ponnek]

Wait, this is a real thing?

[Donos28]

Love this, sgf! lookin' forward to more.

[JodaSFU]

Please tell me this excerpt is just a characterising scene made to establish the characters as emotionally and mentally immature, spending prolonged period of times discussing and caring about shit that has little to no real impact on anything. Through the course of the novel they will go through an implicit journey of discovering other people, emotions, love and they will inadvertently do and say things that matter and evolve as people. That's what this is right?

[Fjarhultian]

@JodaSFU Wouldn't actually surprise me.

[FatalKitsune]

@JodaSFU In the setting of the book, virtual reality and the MMO-type world inside of it is basically everything, it is all anything most people do. They are discussing the tastes of the creator of that world while hanging out in a virtual chatroom inside it. So, yep, they're annoying nerds. The main characters do develop a bit, though. In fact, he *does* learn at the end that actually talking to real people is a good thing.

[JodaSFU]

@FatalKitsune The only possible way I could see the novel redeem itself is if it's /about/ this character development. I assume that's not the case?

[FatalKitsune]

@JodaSFU Your original comment was pretty much on the money. The characters at the start are MMO and game-obsessed players hunting for a mythical easter egg inside the game. They obsess over it and the quest for it is the driving force of the book. The passage was from the beginning of the book, and by the end the main three characters do learn that there's more to life than virtual reality, and learn that liking someone for their personality is more important than outward appearance.

[JodaSFU]

@FatalKitsune Oh. Well that reinstates some of my faith in humanity.

[FatalKitsune]

@JodaSFU Haha. It's just kind of hard to explain it all within 400-whatever characters in a YouTube comment box, and also without spoiling things for people that may actually want to read the book. It's a decent read.

[CalBro]

I think I'm going to be sick.

[Xallys15]

I am actually reading this at the moment. Queue geekish glee at seeing this in my subscription box :3

[SnapImaX]

Supergreatfriend's "How about that?" is the most damning phrase known to man.

[kortexsirvasil]

I cried.

[Venomous9]

how is this one of the best books of 2011 on Amazon

[UberWolf1337]

I have heard rumors this book will be made into a movie. If it is will you review it for us?

[jvemPiRe14]

I-r0k pretty much sums it up

[NotThat3]

O.o

[Nate1979]

And gaming culture falls three steps back...

[niceboar]

Assburgers: the novel

[RazortheBlade]

Behold! Shitty Clerks!

[LiqnLag]

Proof I'll listen to anything you devote your amazing voice to. Subbed 5ever mate.

[keimakoh]

Elf Only Inn guy, is that you?

[DeeZiner]

Hilarious! Love your voice!

[Lymanity]

unbelievably published. =P

[AbeX301]

I don't know why, but I think you could impersonate the Scout from Team Fortress 2.

[Scix]

Is Ernest Cline you, by chance?

[Whiskeyklone]

What a funny dramatic reading of some shitty fanfic!

Oh. Oh... Oh sweet baby atheismo, it's from a real book that seems to have been optioned for a movie.

[Pinkfurryone]

Ready Player One, starring Agent Francis York Morgan

[MikeNnemonic]

Frederick W. "The Ogre" Palowaski had a certain phrase pertaining to people like that.

[GenericSteve764]

Big Bang Theory - The Novelization

[LinNeTule]

@GenericSteve764 I love you.

[T3hWaffleman]

@GenericSteve764 Nah, it's missing the obnoxious laugh track, so this is better. A bit.

[Harabeck]

Why?

[Nights557]

wat fuk