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Ernest Cline is a sellout who got lucky piggybacking off the success of popular franchises. I've seen high schoolers write better than that guy.
It's easily the worst book I've read, and I only finished because of the unintentional hilarity of it all. In a story ostensibly about how evil media mega corporations are, the author wrote a hail corporateove love letter to top selling franchises without realizing the irony.
There was potential in it being a self parody, although in a way the whe situation is funnier because he was so earnest.
I spent my first audible credit on that book. I hadn’t seen the movie…still haven’t. But it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, and I knew him from reddit. He did a good job. That’s all I have to say about it.
Same only way I heard it and the movie sucked ass. He is a sellout won't even touch the second one.