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The book is wildly different from the movie.
The movie is shit. The book is actually good.
I would bet a lot of the praise about it being good with the referencial shit is from the book, not the movie.
The book is not good. It's a shitty self-insert fantasy about a world where all the 80s trivia the author is nostalgic for is actually something valuable.
The book is mediocre, the movie is shit
Wow, I completely disagree with this guy/gal. I thought the book was complete garage nerd porn, and exactly what the first commenter hated about the movie but turned up to 11.
The book is just lists of nostalgia bait with no real threats or setbacks for the main character.
The book has so many lists of random early 80s nerd trivia that doesn’t have anything to do with anything other than fake nostalgia. It’s stranger things the book.