Talk:Ready Player One

Discussion

Talk:Ready Player One Is this the place to say how amazing this book is?118.93.9.19 (talk) 09:48, 18 December 2011 (UTC)Jono

No, this is for discussing the article only. --Mrmatiko (talk) 09:55, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

The reception section needs a reference to the poor writing -- the book can be downright painful to read at times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.15.118 (talk) 15:44, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Summary incomplete

The plot summary is gravely incomplete, and as of right now just a teaser. Is this page supposed to sell or to inform? --Paniq (talk) 13:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

This article needs a new "Plot summary", because what it has now is a detailed plot description and not a summary at all. 91.122.14.73 (talk) 10:17, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I've edited out the promotional bumpf and edited for brevity, but the plot summary is still woefully incomplete. Ross Fraser (talk)

The Plot summary is very poorly written. The entire plot is spoiled, and written out of sequence and confusingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.53.94.35 (talk) 22:05, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

... and now the plot summary is gravely incomplete again. The anonymous user above who said it was "very poorly written" gutted it back down to just a plot teaser. It doesn't matter that the entire plot was spoiled: Wikipedia contains spoilers. On the good faith assumption that the plot summary was out of sequence, and since I haven't read the book, I won't restore the plot summary myself. But if someone who has read the book wants to use old, full plot summary as a starting point to fleshing it out again, here's the last revision it was in: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ready_Player_One&direction=prev&oldid=679332109 --101.98.222.225 (talk) 01:28, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

book published after selling movie rights to book?

The article reads The book was published by Random House on August 16, 2011. and Warner Bros. bought the rights to the film in June 2010.. So after Random House got the publishing rights to the book, it took them over a year to actually publish it? If it was so good that they paid $500K for the rights to publish it, and so good that a major film company bought the rights to it straight away, it shouldn't take that long to see print. Dream Focus 09:20, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

You don't write a whole book into a ready-to-print stage and then take it to a publisher. You take a first draft at most, or an outline and samples, or maybe if you're Stephen King you just taken an outline, and then the publisher decides whether they want to buy in. The film/TV rights to the book are usually sold at some time between that point and the completion of the finished draft of the book. 138.38.24.108 (talk) 12:55, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

It all depends on the book. It's really not possible to generalize about subsidiary rights in the way that you have. The original question about sale dates is a valid one and merits more research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.205.76.53 (talk) 21:43, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Pop Culture References

The pop cultural references in this book are extraordinary. I feel like there needs to be one of two solutions: either this is something that is left to the RPO fans on a separate, RPO wiki, or the references should be a new page in wikipedia (a la the "discography" page of big or long lasting bands).

Almost every world, NPC and artifact references something different in the book. I feel like a separate page is the only way to do it justice.

Datakid (talk) 00:37, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

I agree completely. I mean the page where he lists all of the things he has studied is a lot alone. Furthermore, I feel that a reference would need to be more clearly defined. Is any comment regarding a work such as "scanning the room like A T-1000" a reference to Terminator or would it need to be directly stated, such as stating that their are planets modeled after those in Firefly? Or would you need to go even further and say it must be a major plot point such as Tomb of Horrors? I would argue that any comment about the work should be regarded as a reference in which case I agree we would need a new page for it. The section on this page could be used just for major plot references, such as Tomb of Horrors, War Games, and Zork. While containing a reference link to the page with all the references. --AndrewJPF (talk) 00:28, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

My thoughts are that any list of references from this would be just too all-encompassing and time consuming, you may just as well reference the 80's itself, or link to an article on 80's geekdom (if such a thing exists) - PipersPeter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.72.19 (talk) 13:52, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Not sure, but wasn't Ferris Bueller's Day Off also referenced in the book? --93.131.253.1 (talk) 19:09, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

I've removed this section - it's basically trivia, only of interest to fans of the book (and perhaps not even then). Lots of books and films are filled with pop culture references; we don't usually list them all. If you want to make such a list, do it somewhere other than Wikipedia. Robofish (talk) 00:24, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Spoiler alert

This article should come with a huge Spoiler alert on top of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stepcz (talk • contribs) 18:06, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

ALL WP articles on fictional books contain plot summaries and none contain "spoiler alerts". If readers don't want to know how the book ends, they (presumably) won't read the plot summary. Ross Fraser (talk)

WP:SW Llamabr (talk) 20:29, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Aech's identity

Spoiler though it be, Aech's identity should probably be listed with the other characters, per Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED. Most people know by now that Wikipedia has spoilers, I suspect. User:Glenn Willen (Talk) 22:19, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I disagree. The nicknames of the main characters should be sufficient. There's little to no value in including the real names of the characters, especially in this case where the characters are in their alter egos most of the time, and there is this kind of spoiler involved as well. Manabreak- (talk) 18:53, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

I trimmed the character names section down to include only one name for each character except for Wade/Parzival. While Wikipedia doesn't censor, the extra information was superfluous. --Sennsationalist (talk) 06:02, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Gene Wilder rumor

I removed the Gene Wilder rumor. In the comments of the linked to article it actually states that the original sourced article that it's simply an author wishing that such would occur. Spielberg is courting Wilder for a different movie and the original author simply wishes that Wilder would do this one as well. There's no rumor... --74.1.240.170 (talk) 13:12, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Film Adaptation

should a new page be created for the film adaptation since a lot of news is coming out now? JJsCat (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

It is currently being drafted at Draft:Ready Player One (film). Reach Out to the Truth 02:24, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Wil Wheaton is not the VP

The Wil Wheaton character is the VP of the players council. Someone please change that. --168.215.131.150 (talk) 22:17, 14 April 2016