gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeM to Fiction Books@literature.cafe · 9 months agoWhat book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped?message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up130arrow-down1message-squareWhat book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped?gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeM to Fiction Books@literature.cafe · 9 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoThat one is generational I think. It isn’t going to hit all your childhood nostalgia buttons if you weren’t born by about 1985.
minus-squareDrusas@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoI was the target audience. I got all or almost all of the references, I just thought the book was awful.
minus-squareNath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoOh, well there goes my theory. I liked the book, but I saw it was relying on me relating hard to the 80’s references. Like a book version of The Wedding Singer.
minus-squarebrygphilomena@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoIt was a list more than a book. It read like the author was saying “look how smart I am with all these references.”
Ready Player One
That one is generational I think. It isn’t going to hit all your childhood nostalgia buttons if you weren’t born by about 1985.
I was the target audience. I got all or almost all of the references, I just thought the book was awful.
Oh, well there goes my theory. I liked the book, but I saw it was relying on me relating hard to the 80’s references. Like a book version of The Wedding Singer.
It was a list more than a book. It read like the author was saying “look how smart I am with all these references.”