Why does everyone suddenly hate 'Ready Player One'?

What the heck just happened? A few years back, I happened to read Ernest Cline's paen to eighties nostalgia, Ready Player One. As I wrote about it here for TeleRead, I thought it was a pretty fun book. It read a lot like the young-adult novels I used to love growing up. Combined with all the shout-outs to the geeky…

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