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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoyed this book, it explored some lovely technological and existential concepts as well as being nice and nerdy. It didn't seem quite as well balanced as ready player one, and the chapters about Prince world seemed a bit OTT. Overall a good, fun story.
A decent sequel with as creative a plot twists as the original.
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
I loved Ready Player One. It was a fun ride and to this day I still enjoy going back and rereading it, it's jovial with an air of gravity for the big moments.
Ready Player Two is a cash grab of lazy writing and was one of the worst books I've ever read. I was so excited and wanted so hard to like it. I gave it every benefit of the doubt but it was awful. I was so disappointed.
Ready Player Two is a cash grab of lazy writing and was one of the worst books I've ever read. I was so excited and wanted so hard to like it. I gave it every benefit of the doubt but it was awful. I was so disappointed.
If you really loved Ready Player One - prepare to be disappointed. Ready Player Two isn't bad, not exactly, and it's nice to revisit a beloved book and characters, but...it's just not as good.
Not that I actually expected it to be, but it would have been nice to be wrong.
Literally nothing of interest happens in the first 90 pages, so it is very slow starting, plus Wade is a complete and utter jerk.
Then, a sad thing happens that restarts a hunt like that of Ready Player One. I found the challenges less interesting this time (perhaps because I'm not a huge Prince fan and have never seen a John Hughes movie) and there seemed to be more pop references I didn't get and fewer that I did. And I found the ending downright unsatisfactory.
So I will forget all about Ready Player Two and reread (or listen to - love the Wil Wheaton narration) Ready Player One again in a few years.
Not that I actually expected it to be, but it would have been nice to be wrong.
Literally nothing of interest happens in the first 90 pages, so it is very slow starting, plus Wade is a complete and utter jerk.
Then, a sad thing happens that restarts a hunt like that of Ready Player One. I found the challenges less interesting this time (perhaps because I'm not a huge Prince fan and have never seen a John Hughes movie) and there seemed to be more pop references I didn't get and fewer that I did. And I found the ending downright unsatisfactory.
So I will forget all about Ready Player Two and reread (or listen to - love the Wil Wheaton narration) Ready Player One again in a few years.
The main reason for wanting to read Ready Player Two is because you enjoyed reading Ready Player One. After all, if you didn’t like Ready Player One, then why on earth would you want to read the similarly-titled Ready Player Two? So a review of Ready Player Two must answer the question: How well did you like RP2 compared to RP1”?
When I bought and read RP1, there was the thrill of discovering a fun, nostalgic, exciting and entertaining book with a storyline unlike most books I’d read. I did think the search for the second key was a bit slow, but I still thought that overall the book was highly entertaining. And RP1 also had another intriguing aspect: Who were the other in-the-real-world characters whose avatars supported the quest for the three keys? The story had heart. And the bad guy was BAD. So matching or exceeding RP1 was a very high bar for RP2.
And the bar was too high. At a basic level, RP2 should have been even more exciting than RP1 because, instead of finding 3 keys, more than twice that number of objects had to be found – and in much less time, too. So there are no slow parts in the story. But whereas the reader of RP1 could feel “yeah, that might be where the key is”, no such buy-in was possible for the reader of RP2 – instead the reader just kind of mentally follows-behind while the protagonist goes from place to place. Since the puzzles required knowledge of earlier, before-the-start-of-the-story actions and explorations by the avatars, RP2 was a very passive experience for the reader.
Bottom line: If I’d read Ready Player Two first, I would not have been interested in reading Ready Player One.
When I bought and read RP1, there was the thrill of discovering a fun, nostalgic, exciting and entertaining book with a storyline unlike most books I’d read. I did think the search for the second key was a bit slow, but I still thought that overall the book was highly entertaining. And RP1 also had another intriguing aspect: Who were the other in-the-real-world characters whose avatars supported the quest for the three keys? The story had heart. And the bad guy was BAD. So matching or exceeding RP1 was a very high bar for RP2.
And the bar was too high. At a basic level, RP2 should have been even more exciting than RP1 because, instead of finding 3 keys, more than twice that number of objects had to be found – and in much less time, too. So there are no slow parts in the story. But whereas the reader of RP1 could feel “yeah, that might be where the key is”, no such buy-in was possible for the reader of RP2 – instead the reader just kind of mentally follows-behind while the protagonist goes from place to place. Since the puzzles required knowledge of earlier, before-the-start-of-the-story actions and explorations by the avatars, RP2 was a very passive experience for the reader.
Bottom line: If I’d read Ready Player Two first, I would not have been interested in reading Ready Player One.
I have to say, I enjoyed this one almost as much as the first one. I dunno why people were giving it grief. Some of the "quests" went on longer than I felt they needed to, but overall a decent story, and I've read FAR worse sequels.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book would of been better if we would of been following Samantha or even the low five. Wade continues his unlikeable streak from the first book and becomes an bigger asshole in this book. Samantha is the voice of reason during the whole book just to go back on her views near the end of the book the rest of the characters just seem to ignore her or down play her views. Even the villain was more interesting than the main character just because of his concept. I say best pretend that there is only one book