• Stubb@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    I have no clue as to how that book got so famous. Ernest Cline writes like a redditor…

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      5 months ago

      The premise is interesting, has potential as a work of fiction but yeah the writing is awful. I kind of like how there isn’t really any stakes. The characters think there are big important stakes but basically nothing really bad would happen if they failed. I wish it had stayed like that and the main villain hadn’t basically decided to kill a bunch of kids, and an entire city block of innocent people, over what he’s essentially a hostile business takeover.