![]() Those interests eventually manifested themselves in the novel Ready Player One, a book densely packed with pop-culture references from not just the ’80s, but other decades as well. The isolation allowed him to find escape in pop culture of the time, which included going to movies in Mansfield and chasing down new music releases in Akron. There’s little reason for him not to love it. ![]() “It felt kind of isolated, but looking back, it was kind of an idyllic place to grow up in a safe, small town where you knew everyone and I loved it.” “We were allowed to dance, but there really wasn’t any reason to,” Cline joked during a recent phone interview. ![]() ![]() The author, whose first novel, Ready Player One, serves as the basis of the Steven Spielberg film of the same name, describes his native Ashland, where he lived until 18, as a town out of the Kevin Bacon film Footloose. Even 1980s pop-culture references creep into the most rote of questions directed at author-screenwriter Ernest Cline. ![]()
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