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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

uutopicaa's review against another edition

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2.0

2.5

LO PEOR DEL LIBRO:

-El comienzo: El inicio de esta novela es bastante malo. Tenemos un primer acercamiento a la trama que es interesante (allí se explica la competencia), y luego nos tenemos que bancar casi cincuenta páginas de nada en las que vemos al OH, POBRECITO WADE que es pobre, huérfano y vive en una casa rodante con su tía, el novio de su tía y otras personas pobres. Hello! ¿Les suena conocido esto? A mí sí. Creo que este año he leído 10 novelas que empiezan con el POBRECITO adolescente huérfano de familia disfuncional que vive en una casa rodante con persona X y su pareja alcohólica/drogadicta. ¿Es en serio? ¿Acaso los autores estadounidenses no tienen mejor imaginación?

-Los personajes: Salvo por un “giro inesperado”, los personajes son más planos que tabla de planchar. Todos se parecen en absolutamente TODOS los aspectos salvo por su posición económica. Se comportan igual, piensan igual, tienen las mismas ideas, reaccionan de la misma forma, etc. ENTIENDO que muchas veces cuando uno es un geek/nerd/freak se rodea de personas con intereses similares, pero hay una diferencia entre “intereses en común” y “la misma personalidad”. El protagonista se destaca UN POCO por ser más inteligente y arriesgado, pero nada más.

-Las descripciones: La primera mitad del libro se siente como si te obligaran a leer un montón de entradas de Wikipedia. Hay PÁGINAS Y PÁGINAS de explicaciones e información para todas aquellas personas que no entienden las referencias a los juegos o a las películas. ¿Lo peor de esto? Es que el autor usa incluso los diálogos como una forma de tirarnos datos. Pensarán que no es tan malo, pero cuando un personaje te dice “Ah, esa es una frase de la película tal. La filmaron en tal año. Tal persona fue el director. Se grabó en tal lugar y con tales actores. Durante la filmación pasó tal y tal cosa y al final, la última cena fue de tal forma por tal motivo” (durante dos carillas), el lector pierde interés. Es HORRIBLE. Te cortan TODA la trama para darte tres páginas de información innecesaria. Yo creo que si el lector realmente quiere saber del tema, lo va a buscar por su cuenta. Sino, usen un pie de página o algo. Pero esta novela es ridícula en el aspecto informativo. La trama no te “muestra” los datos, sino que el narrador hace pausas para que puedas leer una explicación tipo Wikipedia. Es un horror y corta mucho el flujo lector. Desengancha.

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LO MEJOR DEL LIBRO:

-La trama: cuando terminé de leer la novela, me quedé conforme con la historia. La idea de un universo virtual en el que usuarios de todo el mundo compiten para ganar la fortuna del creador y los derechos sobre los servers me pareció genial. Muy entretenido. Siempre me ha gustado la aventura.



Si quieren leer la reseña completa (que tiene como seis páginas), pueden acceder a mi blog a través de este enlace: https://pardonmispanglish.blogspot.com/2017/08/resena-ready-player-one-ernest-cline.html#more

kristenlees's review against another edition

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3.0

I really enjoyed the overall story, and I really liked the characters. I can't wait to see it as a movie. So why only 3 stars? I imagine this is how a lot of people felt about The Martian, with the maths and science, except for this one it was too many video games or tv shows or movies that I hadn't heard of or seen. Not sure if it was my age or where I'm from or maybe I just wasn't geeky enough, but the details, the references, the things you had to understand to perhaps 'get' the story, kind of dragged it down for me.

rachellarson2019's review against another edition

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4.0

I listened to this as an audio book and initially started it with my kids on a long road trip. They loved it so much that they finished it without me, with their dad, on another long road trip. Really the only downside to this book is the length, it’s over 16 hours if you listen to it, so it does take quite some time to finish.

The book itself follows a teenager gaming in a virtual universe in a high stakes game sometime in the future. I would not have read it on my own, as the subject doesn’t really appeal to me, but selected it thinking it would appeal to my kids and it did! Having said that, it’s not a very kid friendly book as far as some of the subject matter and language goes, so proceed with caution if you are careful with those kinds of things.
I liked this a surprising amount, the kids loved it, and so did their dad. We are all quite different in our book tastes so it is really difficult to find something we all love.

The scope of the book is impressive, along with all of the pop culture references from the 80s. I didn’t understand as many of them as I would have if I had been exposed to pop culture then, but the book is so well written and engaging that it didn’t even matter. I don’t enjoy gaming at all but still like this book. Highly recommend the audiobook if you are taking a road trip with teenagers that love to game and adults that grew up in the 80s.

roma_reading56's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

srartese's review against another edition

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5.0

Yes. This is great. Read it. So happy. I’m a nerd.

oak_55's review against another edition

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4.0

4.5
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jaifman's review against another edition

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3.0

Empecé este libro con bastantes ganas y la mezcla que ofrecía parecía perfecta para alguien como yo. Y aunque disfruté mucho de sus primeros compases, una vez le ves las costuras al libro (enlazar cualquier hecho como mera excusa para bombardearte de nostalgia de un modo demasiado evidente) pues se acaba haciendo cansino, ya que el argumento sci-fi de fondo no deja de ser algo un tanto manido.

Aprecio su originalidad y la nostalgia es la nostalgia, pero pienso que habría sido un relato corto perfecto y en cambio como novela se hace un poco larga y reiterativa. Aun así, la recomiendo.

annashiv's review against another edition

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4.0

It's pretty good but definitely has some issues. The characters were great, and the plot was flawed but kept interesting and straightforward. My problem with it was the info dumping at the beginning. It didn't seem necessary and often repeated itself (like reinforcing the idea that he studied everything Halliday- at some point it became redundent) I would have also liked the second and third riddles to be something the reader could guess, but I understand why they aren't. It was just very clear that this was his first novel and it could have been better. Still, despite that, I really enjoyed it. It was a solid idea. I would recommend it to anyone who likes video games or the eighties pop culture in general.

jennrocca's review against another edition

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5.0

Fun! I heard it described as "DaVinci Code for nerds" and that is pretty fair. While, overall, it was a fun, fast paced adventure - I still zoned out a little when the descriptions of armor, ships, weapons, and magical abilities turned too RPG detailed. On the whole - a *ton* of fun.

The book is *so* completely centered on 80's pop culture, I'm not sure what current teens will think. I look forward to finding out.

update 4/2018 - Just reread this book. This time in audio form. I still enjoyed it but it's YA lit nature was more in-my-face this time around. Still fun.

guppyur's review against another edition

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3.0

I really enjoyed this book, but I can only recommend it to the fellow nerds of today for whom it was written. It contains references to all kinds of modern geek culture, ranging from Galaga to Cory Doctorow to Cap'n Crunch (not the cereal), and feels like the author is "one of us," and not in a trying-too-hard way. If you can identify all three of the things I listed, give this one a good look.