I read Ready Player One on the recommendation of my 11yo nephew. And.... I can really see why he liked it, but HOT DAMN there's a whole lot of author-filibuster "Oh yeah? Well all those things I cared so much about consuming and 'wasted' all that time on will SAVE THE WORLD SOME DAY, MOM" segments. As well as a fair pile of "teenaged geek hates people who don't share his obsessions and don't think the same things are important".

I found the rest of the book reasonably okay. And the idea that someone rode herd on Cline while writing the screenplay, and Spielberg directing, means I'm cautiously optimistic about the movie.

(Meanwhile, this looks like the first good Star Trek since Galaxy Quest, and I'm there day 1 for Thor. Justice League just looks like the first three truly awful DCCU movies done again, and more, like they learned nothing from Wonder Woman. I hope I'm wrong, it would be nice for DC movies to start being good-on-the-regular instead of "holy shit, one was GOOD? HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN?")