Is there a bigger pop culture clusterfuck than this?

>read RPO for 1 day and only started hating it once you learned who and what the author is
How does it feel not being able to identify shit even when you're eating it?

I'm only about 20 pages in. Shit hasn't manifested in full yet.

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I thought American literature had hit rock bottom with Martin until I read this POS.

>not being able to identify shit by the first syllable

No way do people see Mad Max as a good trilogy

The first is OK exploitation cinema, the second is cool but dated and the third is camp trasho with some cool bits.

Really Fury Road fucking blew the original trilogy out of the water

What is the point of all this pop-culture research though? Can anyone who has read the book give some context? Right now it just reads like a long shopping list of name-dropping. It's difficult to read.

Also Akalabeth can get fucked. Ultima is where it's at.

That's not even the worst thing Cline has penned.

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He has to use them to find the mad professor's fun egg and win the gajillion dollars or something I think.

Unenlightened, Neanderthal frat boys
can continue to feign intolerance
at the taste or the smell, while boasting about the size of their phallus,
all of them leaving a sea of unsatisfied women in their wake

So there's clues in this bibliography/filmography/discography/etc of popular culture that is needed to win a big prize?

Alright I suppose that makes more sense if the protagonist is trying to convince the reader that he has the best chance of winning. Sounds fucking dumb out of context but with the context it just sounds mildly silly. I doubt I'll ever read it unless if someone gave me a copy but it doesn't sound like my kind of thing.

so he likes fat pimple pizza faces who watch Game of Thrones

GROSS

It's retarded in-context as well, don't worry.

Why are the passages so short?

Why are there line breaks in middles of sentences when it's not a poem?

Serious question. The headlines for the motion picture are asking "Will this be the Black Panther for Gamers?"

I am not a "gamer." But I read this bubble gum book because somebody gave it to me as a gift. It's about the 80s. All the quest stuff is 80s trivia. War Games and PacMan. How is any of that supposed to appeal to the 15-25 crowd who play Call of Duty or Legend of Grimrock? Does anyone in that age bracket have the slightest interest in a two-hour odyssey through some X-er nostalgia carnival?

372pages.com/
It's a podcast by two guys from rifftrax/MST3K where they discuss RP1. Every now and then the hosts miss the point and betray that they aren't exactly literary scholars themselves, but most of the time they do a good job picking apart exactly what's wrong with Cline's work.

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Nael Stephenson did it over 2 decades ago in "Snow Crash". Cline is a hack.

Mad Max, Road Warrior, and Fury Road. Great trilogy, what are you talking about?

If this was just shit writing, I could ignore this book. But what makes me truly angry is that all my love for anything listed in this book completely drains away. If I just wanted something comfy to relax with before bed, or read on the beach, these were the books and films I turned too. But then Ernest Cline came along and masturbated all over them. I can barely even look at the tattered spine of my Hitchhiker's Guide. I'm ashamed to even say Niel Gaiman's name. This one man has ruined pop culture for me.

It is a poem. Now do you realize the terror we're dealing with?

>Thunderdome conveniently forgotten

What's Thudnerdrome?

imdb.com/title/tt0089530/

It completes the trilogy that was talking about.

They're all fantastic you plen

Right--Mad Max, Road Warrior, Fury Road. I'm confused, why are you showing me a Tina Turner musical?

lmao faggotr

>found the 420 blazer who made these covers

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youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg

Hardly.

I kind of want to read it just to shit on it

The guys who did MST3K did a podcast series where they read it and did just that

kek, that ending

>Haha I understand all of these references! I am culturally well-versed!

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I can imagine this is what the entirety of Reddit think.

>Japan? Did I cover Japan?
>Yes. Yes indeed.

I cringed the hardest at this line. Cline is objectively a worse writer than Rowling, King, Martin, and Meyer combined.

I SAW SOMETHING I KNOW AND I CLAPPED

>The holy trilogies
The really spooky thing, is that these schlocky films and tv shows have replaced religion for a huge portion of young people in the west.

>"Will this be the Black Panther for Gamers?"

Oh my fucking god.

Liking DEVO and David Fincher doesn't make me like this guy, right?

nigga, are you a woman? last book i read at the beach was benjy's chapter from the sound and the fury.

>I'm ashamed to even say Niel Gaiman's name

or spell his name correctly, it seems

You are on to something.

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Currently listening to it, and I'm really glad I found it before I went out and got the book, because good Lord is it ever awful. It's as if he was trying to discredit the nerdy pop culture movement that's been gaining momentum in the last 20 years by writing the single worst book he could as a love letter to it.

Podcast is funny though.

Its a fanfiction written by a manchild who couldn't decide which of his juvenile daydreams to write a book about. Movie looks cool though.

my diary desu

When's the last time you went to the beach? I'm guessing you don't have a job.

>being disappointed in the faithless
>still
Damnation for thee, cretin.

I'll be honest, the reason I hate this is because it reminds me of myself when I was fifteen years old. It's a fundamentally juvenile attitude towards art that I'm ashamed I ever shared and have sincerely worked to grow out of. When I see somebody else that's proud to wallow in mediocrity and laziness, it reminds me of my own mediocrity and laziness, and it terrifies and repulses me.

most people who develop in capitalist society are like this, just be glad you grew out of it, most people don't.

Obsession with the spectacle. An inability to see the substance for the signs. Form without function. It spreads. How do we save ourselves?

>From the Police to Journey to REM to the Clash
>like Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Pink Floyd
there are literally two and a half (2.5) good bands there

Perfect, I'll check that out first to see if it's worth it lol

Cringed audibly.

I am going to fucking kill him.

lmao look at this tina turner simply the best movie trilogy faggot

>How is any of that supposed to appeal to the 15-25 crowd who play Call of Duty or Legend of Grimrock?
Because they will update the references to modern day trash, in the trailer you can see they included the iron giant and that bitch from overwatch

>the iron giant
not trash but your point is duly noted