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Feeling like a genius for looking up Dungeon Crawler Carl images so I can learn I will hate hate hate every moment of this and not waste any money checking it out lol oh so it's just Ready Player One but if Ernest Cline listened to less dadrock and played Portal and Borderlands gotcha

I read the first book because the weight of curiosity got to be too much and you’re absolutely correct - it’s a black mark on all of civilization, and by extension me, and I still think I might read a sequel. I can’t unpack that.

People are saying it starts getting good at book 3! Only like 400ish more pages until it's good!

Besides the 2007 bacon humor, my biggest complaint is the structure: Words are a magic spell that puts fiction in people’s brains! Video game mechanics abstract and hide fiction. If you just tell me “I gave the llama a poison status” you have short circuit’ed of the part of words that are fun!