gabe [he/him]M to Fiction [email protected] • 2 years agoWhat book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped?message-square47fedilinkarrow-up131
arrow-up131message-squareWhat book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped?gabe [he/him]M to Fiction [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoThat one is generational I think. It isn’t going to hit all your childhood nostalgia buttons if you weren’t born by about 1985.
minus-squareDrusaslinkfedilink3•2 years agoI was the target audience. I got all or almost all of the references, I just thought the book was awful.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoOh, well there goes my theory. I liked the book, but I saw it was relying on me relating hard to the 80’s references. Like a book version of The Wedding Singer.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoIt was a list more than a book. It read like the author was saying “look how smart I am with all these references.”
Ready Player One
That one is generational I think. It isn’t going to hit all your childhood nostalgia buttons if you weren’t born by about 1985.
I was the target audience. I got all or almost all of the references, I just thought the book was awful.
Oh, well there goes my theory. I liked the book, but I saw it was relying on me relating hard to the 80’s references. Like a book version of The Wedding Singer.
It was a list more than a book. It read like the author was saying “look how smart I am with all these references.”