Ross “usaokay” Siev
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You know how you can tell what kind of person the author is by what they write? One of the poems within this collection, Nerd Porn Auteur, is the most full-on display of Ernest Cline's fascination with porn and geekdom. If it were a personification, it would be a geek who repeatedly harass women whilst wearing a Superman t-shirt and lamenting that he's a "Nice guy who deserves a smart girl." It is the ultimate "Nice Guy" slam poem, one that admonishes anyone who doesn't have Cline's thought process as a "beer-swilling alpha male." In this age where women in geek communities are still being harassed, Cline's poem is one of the rhetorics that many male geeks have when it comes to their perception on women, instead of, you know, seeing them as people rather than a mystical, lustful object. While this poem was written in the early 2000s, if you have read the Ready Player books, you can see that Cline has never really grew out of that fascination on porn and women. I got this ebook for a more in-depth review of Cline, but reading all of his poems are just painful. I cannot believe he got famous writing these.