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What is the worst experience you've had reading a book? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] durfenstein@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

The german version of Ready Player One. Just the most disrespectful drivel about nerdom i have ever read. Absolutely embarassing and god damn was it a slog. I think that was the only book i ever hated and regretted reading. And after reading a bit of the english original i was even more disgusted as it was even worse...

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

It's not just the German translation, it's not really much better in English. What I managed to get through felt just like a "hey look at these references" and wasn't entertaining at all to me.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

And yet somehow the movie adaptation is even worse. How on Earth Spielberg made such a mess of it I do not know.

[-] Stubb@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 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.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 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

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