#ernest cline

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#ready player one #ernest cline #science fiction #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[gr63wdc]

FILMS I WATCHED IN 2024 READY PLAYER ONE (2018) Dir. Steven Spielberg ↳ I was afraid for all my life, right up until the day I knew my life was ending. And that was when I realized that as terrifying and painful as reality can be, reality is real.

#gio.gif #m:film24 #ready player one #film #readyplayeroneedit #rpoedit #filmedit #filmgifs #scifiedit #scifigifs #bookstofilms #userrobin #userbeckett #userniamh #userkenny #userkd #usersama #userlogray #ernest cline #steven spielberg

[explodingsilver]

Ready Player One occupies a fascinating space in my brain. It's bad, but in a specific way that makes me suspect I have more in common with the author than I do with most of his critics.

#ready player one #ernest cline #book discussion #original content do not steal #will elaborate when I get to a computer

[oblivion-books]

“ I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.”  

ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ―   Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

#ernest cline #ernestclineedit #eclaneedit #ready player one #ready player 1 #ready player two #wade watts #parzival #james halliday #samantha cook #art3mis #aech #book #books #quote #gif #gifs #gif hunt #edit #readyplayeroneedit #rpoedit #rp1edit

[thelastofthebookworms]

You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post.

#polls #science fiction #sf polls #modern sf #a memory called empire #arkady martine #binti #nnedi okorafor #ready player one #ernest cline #annihilation #jeff van demeer #the three body problem #liu cixin #world war z #max brooks #the fifth season #n.k. jemisin #the long way to a small angry planet #the wayfarers #becky chambers #the time traveler's wife #audrey niffenegger

[stainlesssteellocust]

Am I talking nonsense or is there a pattern regarding, like…00’s-era nerdcore stories, usually ones involving cool and witty Geek Heroes and all, where they all end up portraying their leads as somewhat less heroic than they initially let on through the power of unreliable narration, and end up focusing on their characters flaws, and re-examine their relationships with women, especially whichever flavour of “she’s totally out of his league but fell for him anyway” love interest they may have ended up with?

Scott Pilgrim, Ready Player One/Two, the Laundry Files, the Dresden Files too from what I’m told…

which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened, what, at least three or four times.

#the laundry files #ready player one #the dresden files #scott pilgrim #charles stross #jim butcher #ernest cline #bryan lee o'malley #scott pilgrim takes off #scott pilgrim vs the world #ready player two #okay those ones were 2011 but same zeitgeist y’know

[satirn]

ready player one[BOOK NOT THE MOVIE] has got me in a choke hold god damn

#ready player one #ready player one book #ernest cline #parzival #parzival rpo #wade watts #wade watts rpo #art #artwork #my art #p♡g☆ #digital art #clip studio paint #love that these are all scenes in the book #redesign #THE MOVIE DESIGN FOR HIM SUCKS ASS. JEAN DENIM VEST R U KIDDING ME #i hate drawing armor

[the-lady-hestia]

My library is taking a minute to fulfill my interlibrary loan request so I started listening to the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline to fill the gaping emptiness of ADHD boredom.

The comments under this post will mainly be me making niche jokes and shitposts about this very odd, yet very charming book

Enjoy

#I’m high again if anyone couldn’t tell #shitpost #ready player one #ready player 1 #ernest cline #wade watts #book #fiction

[monkeysky]

Announcement from July 18th:

Wade Watts, AKA Parzival, has faced down evil corporations, devious scavenger hunts and even murderous AI clones with nothing but his best friends and an encyclopedic knowledge of 80s pop culture. He's risen to the top of the fantastic future virtual world, the OASIS, but now he has to face a new challenge: himself, or rather, himselves.

When Wade upgrades the OASIS to a brand new quantum computing technology, hoping to level up humanity and save the world with the power of science, he accidentally goes from "metaverse" to "multiverse". In February 2024, the ultimate crossover setting gets a brand new dimension. Available in hardcover or audiobook, with returning voice talent from Wil Wheaton.

#Ernest Cline #Ready Player One #Ready Player Two #Ready Player Three #September

[beautyarchive]

Olivia Cooke in Ready Player One (2018).

In the movie, they talk about Halliday’s fear of kissing the girl he likes. It’s not a fear of the kiss, it’s a fear that the attempted kiss will be rejected leaving him feeling like an undesirable fool.

#olivia cooke #ready player one #actress #tye sheridan #parzival #art3mis #james halliday #zak penn #ernest cline #birthmark #i like your birthmark #what happens if i kiss it

[danmori630]

i SINCERELY apologize to andy weir. i have no fucking clue why but i just mixed up him and ernest cline. i know if i got mistaken for ernest cline i would Kill myself so i will be buying another copy of the martian to make up for it. so, so sorry mr. weir.

#andy weir #the martian #the martian book #ernest cline #ready player one #forgive me #books #they are both modern sci fi authors #except one of them wrote an instant modern classic with an unbelievable film adaptation #and the other is an incel

[artificial-librarian]

#Ernest Cline #Ready Player One

[stephenkingporn]

I went to Barter Books in Alnwick today on the last day of my holiday. Awesome book shop, purchased myself a very early birthday present-a signed copy of Armada by Ernest Cline.

I got an L Ron Hubbard book out of sheer curiosity and a Tad Williams because I really enjoyed his Otherland series.

#stephen king #books #reading #constant reader #horror #paperback #collection #stephen king collection #ernest cline #armada #l ron hubbard #tad williams #bookshop

[explodingsilver]

One scene from Ready Player One that I do feel is emblematic for the book as a whole, and my experience reading it, is when the protagonist has to reenact the entirety of War Games as Matthew Broderick's character, including receiving bonus points for getting the inflection of his lines right. It reminded me of how back in middle school, I decided to check out this "fanfiction" thing I had heard so much about, and one of the first stories I found was just the straight-up unaltered plot of the source material but with the author's fursona along for the ride.

The thing is, the author did not do anything wrong by writing this story. But I also did not do anything wrong by not sticking around long enough to find out if this character ever affected the plot.

#ready player one #ernest cline #book discussion #original content do not steal

[leo-delbosque]

My Ready Player One Fan art!

I had a lot of fun creating this idea! It was a wonderful design experience for me!

First to the Key!

#photoshop #digital art #ready player one #virtual reality #80s #80s aesthetic #80s music #80s movies #pop culture #video games #comic books #arcade #retro gaming #ready player 1 #ernest cline #photoshop art #horror #gears of war #freddy krueger #power rangers #legend of zelda #xmen #overwatch #dark souls #bloodborne #streetfighter #gundam #demon slayer #mortal kombat #digimon

[bri-the-nautilus]

yes agreed Kerouac fucking sucks...but I also don't like any beat literature. It's telling that the best author among his contemporaries was an amphetamine-addled trust-fund kid that murdered his wife.

Yeah Burroughs was a fun case lmao. I'm pretty sure he tried to tell the cops that they were pretending to be William Tell when he killed her. Seriously, all those guys were stoned out of their minds. Probably why their books are amazing if you're a 16-22 year old boy but utterly unrelatable if you aren't; there are tons of accounts online of dudes who read the Beats as teens and loved them but revisited them as adults and were like "wow these guys are losers."

Reading that one chapter of Dharma Bums where Kerouac's self-insert and his inserts of Snyder and Ginsberg do three-day-long alcoholic naked ritual fake-Buddhism sex with a shy local teenager was one of the most uncomfortable experiences I've ever had. I was like, wait, this book is based on his life, these characters are based off him and his friends, and he writes THIS??? And PUBLISHES IT???

The only Beat scribbles that I can somewhat tolerate are some of Ginsberg's poetry. "Howl" is pretty damn good, even if Ginsberg was kind of a weirdo. (sidenote: one of Kerouac's worst transgressions in my opinion was the section of Dharma Bums when he has his self-insert go to the San Francisco "Howl" reading and changed the poem's title to "Wail." Fucking Wail??? Really Jack? That word just doesn't have even a sliver of the impact and tone of the word 'howl'. A howl is something raw and primal, a hoarse, furious refrain. A wail is like a fucking baby that needs a nap or something.)

Something that always amused me about the Beats is that many of them are super aware that they're all self-destructive, miserable hedonists, but none of them do anything about it. All of Kerouac's self-inserts go through this weird nature detox where they swear off alcohol and become functioning human beings, but Kerouac died of liver failure in his mom's basement or some shit. The way Ginsberg describes the effects of substance use on his friends in "Howl" is graphic and objectively brutal (if I wasn't already convinced to never do drugs, that poem would've done it), but then he goes and makes street drugs out to be a religious imbibement akin to the blood and body of Christ. Hypocrisy about matters of self-care is everywhere in Beat literature when you start looking for it. Kinda wild.

Honestly, the more I think about it the more I think the best modern-day analogue for Kerouac in particular is fucking Ernest Cline. The Ready Player One guy. They're the same dude. They both have this fixation with the trappings of their youth (drugs for Kerouac, shitty arcade games for Cline), they both write books about self-insert characters obsessed with said trappings, both books portray the said characters as utterly despondent and in a downward spiral that they come out of while the authors are on that same downward spiral but show no signs of recovery. Obviously Cline hasn't died of whatever the '80s-pop-culture equivalent of cirrhosis is, but if you look at the way he completely half-assed RP2, character-assassinating Wade and Halliday in the process, and how he's reacted to criticism of his books, I think it's not an awful stretch to say that Cline is to RP1 Wade as Kerouac is to Ray Smith or whatever that guy's name was just in terms of how their characters can overcome their flaws but the men themselves just can't.

#bri rants about books #kerouac #beat generation #ernest cline