Finished reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. So much fun. Still going to skip the movie, doesn’t seem possible to adapt without losing too much. 📚

@manton I loved the book! The movie was enjoyable, but veered far off the book. Probably for the best.

@manton The movie is still pretty good if you don’t go into it expecting a 1:1 adaptation. Some concessions really needed to be made for it to work. I like the idea that the movie is simply one version of the story, as Wade himself states in the prologue of the book:

“Dozens of books, cartoons, movies, and miniseries have attempted to tell the story of everything that happened next, but every single one of them got it wrong. So I want to set the record straight, once and for all.”

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@manton I liked the book too. But I will say, Spielberg did a great job.

@manton I liked the book too. But I will say, Spielberg did a great job.

@manton yeah, the movie was disappointing. They definitely couldn’t get rights for all the licensed content and it definitely fell way short.

@manton If you liked the book, you probably will not feel the same way about the movie.

@manton I recommend Armada as well (if you haven’t read it yet). Very very similar feel.

@manton you ain’t wrong 😬

@manton Great book. The movie takes certain liberties.

@manton Exactly my take.

Was talked into watching The Martian, and while a good movie, it left out *so much* compared to the book that it was painful.

Not making that mistake again.

@manton this is one of those rare instances where I’m going to say the movie is better than the book.

@manton one of my favorite books of all time! The movie was fine if you don’t expect it to be anything like the book. I hated it on first watch and allowed myself to enjoy it as something different years later.

@manton you are correct sir, the movie is not as good as the book. That said, I still enjoyed it and it didn’t reduce my enjoyment of the book.

Really like all of Clines books - I wonder if he has something new coming soon!