About ten years after I got out of high school, an old buddy I had stayed in touch with had a birthday bash and invited a bunch of us that used to run around together. I remember when MTV played music videos and when Eddie Murphy was funny. Plus, music videos and John Hughes movies and Rubik’s Cubes and Michael Jackson’s Thriller album and….” “But… you got to play the old video games in the actual arcades, and you saw the first generation of home computers come out. That not worrying about the Cold War thing was a relief and the music was a lot better. In fact, I think the ’90s beat the shit out of them. “Kid, why would you want to hear about that? You’re sitting here with enough computer power to download everything from the collected works of Shakespeare to the entire run of The Wire and you want to hear about the ’80s? Just for a contest?” “That’s awesome! You gotta tell me all about it, Kemper.” “So you actually lived through the ‘80s?” “You’re leaving already? Don’t you want to…Oh, my god! You said you were from 2011? And you’re in your 40s, right?” “Really? Well, I gotta get the hell out of here then. The clothes and hairstyles are considered cool again.” ![]() ![]() Because of the contest, the entire world is obsessed with the ‘80s. “And you what? Watch movies from the ‘80s? Listen to the music? Read his favorite books? Play old video games?” So a lot of people like me have to know all about the '80s to hunt for the egg." He left three keys to three gates hidden in here, and the clues have to be stuff that he loved. He was totally obsessed with the ‘80s and nerdly stuff like computers, sci-fi, cartoons, movies, comics and video games. He left an Easter egg hidden somewhere in the OASIS and whoever finds it wins the prize. See the guy who invented the OASIS was this old nerd named James Halliday. “Oh, it’s part of my research for the contest. But what’s with all this old stuff here in your virtual room. “It’s this virtual reality that’s kind of a combination of the Internet and the biggest MMORPG ever made. We’ve had a lot of problems once the cheap fossil fuels started running out. Are those mobile homes stacked up like hillbilly skyscrapers?” I gotta say, things are looking kind of grim around here. Got a time mower and decided to come to the future. ![]() If you're one of those Cline fans who wants to whine about it in the comments I will just delete it and block you.Īfter my laptop fused to my lawn mower due to a freak lightning strike, I discovered that I could use it to travel through time. Plus, his outraged hardcore fans kept coming on here and telling me that I missed the point since I didn't give it 5 stars so I might as well give them something to really be mad about. Then after reading Armada I fully realized what a talentless one-trick hack that Cline really is so I changed this rating. I originally gave this book 3 stars as harmless lightweight fun, but my opinion of it declined as time went by.
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