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A review by isabellarobinson7
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.
DNF at page 100 (26%)
Rating: 1 star
Yuck. Yuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuck. I was told it was going to be bad, but I thought it couldn't be as bad as they were all saying. Well, if you've heard the same thing, take this as confirmation: it really is as terrible as everyone says. I feel like those guys in the "just saw Cats" photo (if you haven't seen that masterpiece of a photo before here it is:)
I am all three of those guys. And I only got 100 pages in! I can only imagine how much worse it gets.
Around the 50ish page mark, I was spurred on just so I could have a definitive "Worst Book of 2021", but I couldn't manage it even for that. Yes, there are obvious flaws in the first book too, and I probably wouldn't rate it as high now as I did when I first read it (half the reason why I'm not rereading it any time soon), but this book was just... yuck. The characters were all over the place, the author ran out of ideas for a plot so just copy and pasted book one's plot, and making something "not YA" takes more than just a crap-ton of heavy handed sexual references! Like I don't care that there is a 50 person orgy in which you can virtually put yourself in all 50 people's (so to speak) shoes!! Was that detail really all that necessary!? No, let me rephrase that: IN WHAT GOD FORSAKEN WORLD IS A DETAIL LIKE THAT WARRANTED?! Because it sure ain't this one!
So after 100 pages of utter garbage I will never be able to remove from my mind, I am left with one question. Why. Yes, there's also ones like WHAT IN ALL THAT IS PURE AND HOLY MADE YOU WRITE THAT, but the one that dominates all the questions being shouted around my head is a simple why. Just why. As in wHY THE F-
Rating: 1 star
Yuck. Yuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuckyuck. I was told it was going to be bad, but I thought it couldn't be as bad as they were all saying. Well, if you've heard the same thing, take this as confirmation: it really is as terrible as everyone says. I feel like those guys in the "just saw Cats" photo (if you haven't seen that masterpiece of a photo before here it is:)
I am all three of those guys. And I only got 100 pages in! I can only imagine how much worse it gets.
Around the 50ish page mark, I was spurred on just so I could have a definitive "Worst Book of 2021", but I couldn't manage it even for that. Yes, there are obvious flaws in the first book too, and I probably wouldn't rate it as high now as I did when I first read it (half the reason why I'm not rereading it any time soon), but this book was just... yuck. The characters were all over the place, the author ran out of ideas for a plot so just copy and pasted book one's plot, and making something "not YA" takes more than just a crap-ton of heavy handed sexual references! Like I don't care that there is a 50 person orgy in which you can virtually put yourself in all 50 people's (so to speak) shoes!! Was that detail really all that necessary!? No, let me rephrase that: IN WHAT GOD FORSAKEN WORLD IS A DETAIL LIKE THAT WARRANTED?! Because it sure ain't this one!
So after 100 pages of utter garbage I will never be able to remove from my mind, I am left with one question. Why. Yes, there's also ones like WHAT IN ALL THAT IS PURE AND HOLY MADE YOU WRITE THAT, but the one that dominates all the questions being shouted around my head is a simple why. Just why. As in wHY THE F-