Select language, opens an overlay

Comment

Feb 07, 2018johnlau_0 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Do you like the 1980's? Are you into classic video games? John Hughes movies? How about geeky science fiction novels? If you do, then you might enjoy this book. If not, then I don't know what you will get out of it. I must admit, I grew up in the 1980's and the writer, Ernest Cline definitely has his 1980's nostalgia down. He's not a casual, he's really hardcore. I found myself chuckling along to many of the references. I played many of the video games, listened to the same music, and obsessed over the same movies that appeared in this book. So, yeah, I liked it, because it was a nice trip down memory lane. I also liked how he avoided comic book geekdom, which I find mind-numbingly dull and utterly degenerate. Anyways..... the writing is very pedestrian and the plot was very predictable. The characters were not really fleshed out and the main character was, I admit, a Mary Sue. By all standard metrics, this was a mediocre book that barely rises above the level of a fan-fic. Still, I enjoyed it because I'm a child of the 80's. Your mileage may vary.