Written within the last decade and set in the author's home state of Ohio roughly a quarter - century into the future, Ready Player One's plot is a wish - fulfillment rehash of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, in which the poorest but most pure - hearted of VR obsessives is pitted against the full forces of crass commercialism in a quest to inherit the factory that manufactures the world's dreams. (slantmagazine.com)
The climate crowd are defending the future of life on this planet, no less, and they can't believe anyone would reduce such a crucial matter to something as crass as gas in your tank. (macleans.ca)
Put simply, as popular literature is concerned, what is popular is what is good, at least in crass commercial terms. (russellblake.com)