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Bowie Rowan
@bowieΒ Β·Β 2:06

Who's seen or read Ready Player One?

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So tonight is an exciting night because anytime I am close to finishing a book, I look forward all day to those couple hours if I can make it get happen before bed to read. So this week I have been reading Ready Player One by Ernest Klein, which I've never read, but I was very excited to begin reading it in preparation to discuss it with bookish podcast here, and I am really enjoying it

https://youtu.be/cSp1dM2Vj48

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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoeΒ Β·Β 3:00
I told you, the 80s are the best generation ever before, and so we're sticking by that right now, but yeah, so I enjoy the film a lot. Not as much as the book. I have to be honest. But ready player two, I don't know how I feel about that. Sometimes I think things need to just be left alone. And I feel like Ready player One is one of those things that the story was told. And let's just leave it be
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoeΒ Β·Β 0:40
I did know why, but I can't remember off the top of my head right now. I did understand immediately. It came to me like, why did I? They probably did it. But that's why. So it was a completely different thing. Yeah. So now I clarified
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Mixed feelings about both.

And then when I went and saw the movie, it seemed like, okay, they've now made this into a blockbuster script, which there's a lot of action then. But there's there's things that are lost, you know, some complexities or nuance, etc. It's not to say that it wasn't a good movie or an entertaining movie, but it wasn't the book
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcastΒ Β·Β 4:01
And that's how I feel about Ready player One, but we'll talk about it tomorrow. So I'm really, really excited about it. I've seen both mediums and yes. Okay. I'm going to call this quit, Rachel. Oh, real quick. I did a podcast episode. I don't know if you heard it or not about books. Turn to movie versus movie versus books. Which one first, which 1 second
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoeΒ Β·Β 1:02
I'm just here in this echoey, empty house to quickly second a man called OVA. I really liked it. And I, you know, I regret when our first trip we ever took to Woodstock, New York. There's an old Church that's been turned into the local theater, into art house theater. And a man called OVA was playing, and we debated seeing it while we were there
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcastΒ Β·Β 2:29

@AverageJoe

Hey, Joe, if you liked a man called UBA, if you liked the story of it, you may like a different story called Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, very similar to a man called Uber. I mean, similar, but different, except it's Eleanor Olivia, she's a woman. And you start off with the antihero. And towards the end, you're like, oh, I get it
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Bowie Rowan
@bowieΒ Β·Β 2:22

@bookishpodcast @AverageJoe @SeekingPlumb πŸ€“

So I just finished ready player one, of course, at the very last minute with only a couple hours to go before our book club discussion tonight. So I feel like like I'm in school again or something finishing right before class. Yeah. Wow. It was so great to listen to all of your comments right when I was finishing it. Sorry. Okay. The dog emergency is over. So I had a really interesting reading experience because I read it like the actual book, the ebook
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@Hedy_Lamarr
Art Science Wonder
@Hedy_LamarrΒ Β·Β 2:38

Loved it but only because of reading the book!

But anyway, I saw the movie. I didn't think it was, like, exceptional or anything, but I loved it anyway, because what I really enjoyed about watching the movie after reading the book is that the main action sequence near the end, like, I actually got to see it happening, and I remember reading it and visualizing the main battle or whatever you want to call it. Right
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Bowie Rowan
@bowieΒ Β·Β 3:55

@Hedy_Lamarr Agree! Are any of you going to read Ready Player Two?

Hey, yeah. Thank you for joining the conversation. I completely agree with you about the end in the action sequence, and in general, now that I've seen the movie, I was kind of surprised at how much I enjoyed some of the action sequences scenes, because that's not usually a thing that I'm necessarily super drawn to in movies or anything like that
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