372 Pages We ll Never Get Back
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Episode 91: Ready Player 2 - A Constant Loop of Push It
🕑 Added 2020-12-16 18:06:14 +0000 UTCAfter countless pages of Worldbuilding and freeing child slaves when our hero felt like it, Ernest Cline finally lets some things happen in this section. The action kicks off when a Gunter and a Sharter listen to a Morissey song in silence and it doesn't let up from there! By the time we're done, there's been a kidnapping, a shareholder's meeting, and the rollout of a new firmware update. Also, Cline introduces his most annoying tic yet: telling us information again that he just told us. And by the time we're done with this section, there's been a kidnapping, a shareholder's meeting, and the rollout of a new firmware update.
All this plus Real or Fanfic, Emails, and Dumb Sentences. Stay tuned for a bonus Real or Fanfic as well as some fun stuff next week.
For next time: read thru Chapter 16
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372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
Bridget and I just watched Desk Set (of course on TCM because we're old) and like a lot of things I was wrong about its authors: I always thought it was Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon. It is not. William Merchant wrote the play. All that being said, yes, Conor is going to go into computer-Cline mode for a while. I am resistant, full of antibodies.
Gina Dalfonzo
I was watching "Desk Set" the other night (great Hepburn-Tracy movie from 1957). Hepburn plays a fact-checker, and there's a scene where she has to quote "Hiawatha" to someone on the phone, and after she hangs up she can't stop talking in trochaic tetrameter. I mention this because I fear that too much Cline is going to cause Mike and Conor to have a similar reaction and go around for months, or even years, explaining cultural references to everyone they come across. "I saw the new Wonder Woman movie last night. Wonder Woman is a character who first appeared in 1941 in a comic book published by DC Comics. DC Comics is a comic book publisher that . . ." and on, and on, and on.
Dean Anderson
Conor describes the book as a "pedantic encyclopedia". Really, I think all encyclopedias should be pedantic. That's their job. Novels, on the other hand...
