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#1 Obdigore

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Posted 05 January 2016 - 06:17 PM

So I just read Ready Player One, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I then read Off to be the Wizard, which I liked but it wasn't up to the same quality as Ready Player One.

About the only other thing I've read in this kind of Genre (current/slight future video games/alternate lives?) was Otherland by Tad Williams.

Anyone have GOOD books about this same sort of thing? I suppose Snowcrash (which I enjoyed quite a bit) would qualify?

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Posted 05 January 2016 - 08:52 PM

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Posted 05 January 2016 - 09:09 PM

I dunno if Snow Crash counts, but Reamde, also by Stephenson, certainly does. It's not his best work, but that's because he mashed the perfectly good video game plot with another one (at his publisher's insistence) that doesn't really fit and spoiled both. The stuff actually concerned with the game is good.

You: A Novel by Austin Grossman seems to fit the bill - I haven't read it yet, but I liked his supervillain book Soon I Will Be Invincible so I will at some stage.

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Posted 05 January 2016 - 10:11 PM

Maybe the Dream Park novels By Larry Niven and Steven Barnes?

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Posted 06 January 2016 - 05:06 AM

Obdigore, on 05 January 2016 - 06:17 PM, said:

This is a amazing topic idea, I got so desperate for something similar... that I tried reading Sword Art Online (the book) it was roughly the same as the series.

Anyone??

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Posted 06 January 2016 - 11:42 PM

After reading RPO I went on this same quest. I was recommended Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez. They're similar in some ways - rich computer inventor guy dies, leaves quest, shenanigans ensue - but it's way way freak'n different in a lot of other ways. I loved them. But they are much darker, violent, and ideologically themed. Definitely give them a try.

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Posted 12 January 2016 - 06:11 PM

polishgenius, on 05 January 2016 - 09:09 PM, said:

I got Reamde, and like everything I've read of Stephenson, I'm never like 'must read more', but when I do read the book I can't put it down for 4+ hours.

It was ok, but it was a lot less 'video game' related then I kind of hoped, honestly.

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Posted 06 February 2016 - 09:43 AM

You should read Snow Crash - RPO is basically an updated version of that book. Now you can also read Armada, Ernest Cline's second book. It's not nearly as good as RPO, but a fun read nontheless

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Posted 07 February 2016 - 06:24 PM

Grimjust Bearegular, on 06 February 2016 - 09:43 AM, said:

You should read Snow Crash - RPO is basically an updated version of that book. Now you can also read Armada, Ernest Cline's second book. It's not nearly as good as RPO, but a fun read nontheless ^_^

I'm going to take a wild guess, from OP having enjoyed Snow Crash very much, that he's already read it.

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Posted 08 July 2020 - 05:21 PM

Probably this one (which I had no idea was even being written!)

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Posted 08 July 2020 - 08:21 PM

Didn't even finish the first one.

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 02:38 AM

Traveller, on 08 July 2020 - 08:21 PM, said:

Didn't even finish the first one.

Downer dude is downer.

I enjoyed the hell out of RP1, in a frivolous retro fun way, and utterly look forward to this.

...as long as it's better than ARMADA because that was meh.

Hope he gets Wil Wheaton to narrate the earbook again.

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 06:40 AM

Hey I don't abandon many books, ever, but it felt like it had all this stuff crammed in to make me like it solely based on all the nostalgic references, but the actual story just felt inherently predictable.. I got bored!

Maybe the earbook was better.

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Posted 10 July 2020 - 01:48 AM

The actual story is thin as BK's back-seat upholstery. It's the setting and nostalgia that makes it fun to read. But fair enough if ~~you're so cold and dead inside that that didn't keep you~~ that's not your thing ~~zombie cylon fascist~~.

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Posted 10 July 2020 - 08:11 AM

Well, who needs a story when you can keep saying ' ooh I remember those!' and 'I understand that ref - I had one of those/watched that!' every few lines

No, I'm sure it's good if you like ~~lists of things~~ the warm glow of nostalgia ~~rammed in~~ presented in a subtle way.

I'm looking forward to reading the first two chapters of the next one.

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Posted 11 July 2020 - 05:30 AM

I adore lists of things. Especially lists of things I adore.
More so when those lists of things go fight massive battles with other lists of things.

I see all of your points. They are valid. I don't care, the book was a blast.
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Posted 13 July 2020 - 01:12 PM

With RPO, I could tell that those lists and info dumps were objectively bad writing, but I didn't care. Most of the references were things that I had heard of, but hadn't experienced. So I didn't get any nostalgia from the book, but I still had a blast with it.