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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have no clue as to how that book got so famous. Ernest Cline writes like a redditor...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The premise is interesting, has potential as a work of fiction but yeah the writing is awful. I kind of like how there isn't really any stakes. The characters think there are big important stakes but basically nothing really bad would happen if they failed. I wish it had stayed like that and the main villain hadn't basically decided to kill a bunch of kids, and an entire city block of innocent people, over what he's essentially a hostile business takeover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The english original is awful but the person who translated it to french managed to almost completely fix the writing, and while it still isnt perfect its SO much better