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A review by katieinca
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
5.0
READ it.
I've been describing it to people as "kind of a near-future dystopian virtual reality treasure hunt 80s pop culture fest." Which is TRUE, but somehow fails to capture the fabulousness. If I'd known anything about this before reading it other than that it was most enthusiastically recommended by someone I trusted, I'd have thought "there's no way you could do that without it being incredibly cheesy. And/or depressing." And I'd have been wrong.
My only complaint, if it is one, is that at times it felt like it skewed a little too YA. And there's a point near the end (I think this is vague enough to not be a spoiler but please, by all means, skip this next bit if you're paranoid) ---
where things get a little deus ex machina and I thought one of the good guys would surely turn out to be a bad guy and "really? can it really be that simple? when is the other shoe going to drop?" but it really was that simple.
---OKAY END NOT REALLY A SPOILER PART. So it's fun. It references everything and everyone and then some. But mostly from the 80s. It's like someone said to him "Storing a bunch of pop culture crap in your brain could never be anything but a waste of time" and this is his "oh yeah? What if..." And then the book wrote itself, except with surprising amounts of awesomeness.
I've been describing it to people as "kind of a near-future dystopian virtual reality treasure hunt 80s pop culture fest." Which is TRUE, but somehow fails to capture the fabulousness. If I'd known anything about this before reading it other than that it was most enthusiastically recommended by someone I trusted, I'd have thought "there's no way you could do that without it being incredibly cheesy. And/or depressing." And I'd have been wrong.
My only complaint, if it is one, is that at times it felt like it skewed a little too YA. And there's a point near the end (I think this is vague enough to not be a spoiler but please, by all means, skip this next bit if you're paranoid) ---
where things get a little deus ex machina and I thought one of the good guys would surely turn out to be a bad guy and "really? can it really be that simple? when is the other shoe going to drop?" but it really was that simple.
---OKAY END NOT REALLY A SPOILER PART. So it's fun. It references everything and everyone and then some. But mostly from the 80s. It's like someone said to him "Storing a bunch of pop culture crap in your brain could never be anything but a waste of time" and this is his "oh yeah? What if..." And then the book wrote itself, except with surprising amounts of awesomeness.