Mike Nelson, formerly of MST3K and currently of Rifftrax, has a podcast called 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, where the premise that they read the literary equivalent of the bad movies they'd do on MST3K and review them. The first book they did was Ready Player One, and, hoo boy, are you right. Whole point of the book just seems to be some boomer author listing off all the things he enjoyed when he was younger as if they were the be-all-end-all of pop culture.