Review: Ready Player One

I read Ernest Cline's book Ready Player One years ago and enjoyed it. Somehow, this has become a bad thing. I'm not sure when the tide turned, and one man's ode to 80s pop culture and geekdom became something to be sneered at and ridiculed, but I saw the exasperation appear on social media shortly after the first trailer was released. I found that odd, because nobody I knew who read the book prior to that first trailer seemed to be all that riled up about it. They either dug the book, or they didn't, but most dug it.