
I'm working on it. I'm trying to read a bit every day.
Patrick wrote: "ooh, how does slack work--i read this a couple weeks ago but i'm curious to see what you guys think about david wong/jason pargins"I'm not sure if it allows self-signup but here is the slack group URL thing:
https://decap.slack.com. If it doesn't allow it you can just give us an email address and we'll send an invite.

So I read the introduction last night and I already like it. I definitely recommend reading through the intro rather than just skipping straight to the stories. There are little mini stories about how he came to write the actual short stories. Good stuff.

Up next is Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman. He's awesome so this should be good.

I just finished. Anyone else done? I really want to discuss this one in person. Even better if the author is there.

Okay chapters have been added. Same link as before:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?i...
Doug wrote: "Can we get a version with chapters?"Yeah, everyone hold off on updating. Andrea is going to get a version with chapters over to me shortly and then I'll reupload.

Andrea sent me a copy with some corrections. I've converted it to epub and mobi. Both are available here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?i...

It's funny that you mention the names. I'm curious how everyone will pronounce them. I also felt like it took forever to progress through a few pages but not in a negative way.
I finished last night and really liked it although I'm not sure how to describe it. The characters and world felt very authentic and I'm going to miss them.
One odd thing: Did anyone else find the mixing of internal monologue and dialogue strange? It made me reread quite a few exchanges. Even so, I liked how it was used.
William Pitt for life.

I'm about a quarter of the way through. I'm not really sure where it's going but I am enjoying it. And yeah, the writing is like night and day compared with Ready Player One.

I think he was just saying it was intense.
I'm only about 50 pages in but I'm not really feeling it yet. I'll keep going because I felt the same way with Cloud Atlas and eventually really enjoyed it.
Chris wrote: "I'm nearing page 200. I think I will slow down. Got some comics that need catching up on anyhow."Well 200 pages in with nothing happening seems like a bad thing.

How far in are you? I honestly haven't started. Going Clear is consuming all of my reading time. I'll start this weekend for sure though.

So Spielberg is going to direct the movie. I'm curious to see how that goes. I can definitely imagine a movie being better than the book. I can also imagine a movie being a disaster. I'm not sure which would be more entertaining.

I don't like not finishing books. It was an easy enough read that the impact of stuff I didn't like wasn't too bad. I'm up for PLAYER 1-ing.

I cringed and shook my head in disgust a lot but at least I didn't jump off a bridge.
I was all ready to give this two stars but then the last third redeemed it quite a bit. I still think it's poorly written overall but things definitely got better once the real world came into play.
Dan wrote: "rather than inception, I imagine that is the most successful version of what Second Life wanted to be."I think this is going to make me laugh a lot more throughout the book. I hope someone puts a giant hat that fills up the room on their avatar.
Doug wrote: "If IOI was smart, they would give up looking for Halliday's egg. They'd invest all their money into inventing headjacks and building The Matrix and make OASIS obsolete. "For sure. Maybe that's part of the easter egg.
The references don't bother me enough to dislike the book. It just started bothering me when it wasn't relevant to anything. It was like "let me name every single thing a geek might like." It also doesn't feel like a realistic person at some points. This guy is a potentially autistic dude that was obsessed with programming and yet he had the time and inclination to obsess over EVERY SINGLE geeky thing from 1980 to now? It's too broad.