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A review by suyagotz
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4.0
3.5/5
I enjoyed this book, but it definetely did not live up to the hype. I've heard many times that this novel was a masterpiece, amazing, groundbreaking, phenomenal. I just can't agree.
I was born in the late 90s and grew up in the 2000s, so these are the decades that I know the most about. I was never really interested in the 80s, besides listening to some of the music, I do not know a lot about it. And honestly, I never felt the need to. Even while reading this book I did not have any interest in the cultural aspect of it. I think that not even my parents, who grew up in the 80s would be interested in the special edition of dungeons and dragons or in a game, that was so underground that it could only be played on one specific type of computer.
I'm also NOT a fan of video games, the closest I ever got was playing the Sims fanatically when I was 12 (lol). So I never played any of these games, didn't understand anything they were talking about most of the time. I'm just not a gamer, I never will be and I do not want to be.
These two factors made it hard for me to get really into the book. It was like reading a fantasy novel, with many intricate and little details/trivia that I did not know about or understand, except it was a real life decade 40 years ago.
Most of the times when I'm reading a book that contains clues and riddles, I like to try to solve it along with the characters, to understand it. But in this case, I did not have any knowledge to do so, and even after I was presented with the answer it didn't "click" since I don't know any of these weird 80s Capt'n Crunch or Halliday facts. I wonder if people who grew up in the 80s would solve them on their own, since the possibilitie are literally endless. That made me feel like I couldn't completely dive into the story, I was always a spectator watching from the sidelines, waiting for the main character to figure things out and present them to me.
Overall it was a fun experience, and it reminded me a lot of Percy Jackson, but for grown ups.
P.s.: Am I really supposed to believe that these characters actually knew the entire script to not only one, but two movies, by heart? Nuh huh
I enjoyed this book, but it definetely did not live up to the hype. I've heard many times that this novel was a masterpiece, amazing, groundbreaking, phenomenal. I just can't agree.
I was born in the late 90s and grew up in the 2000s, so these are the decades that I know the most about. I was never really interested in the 80s, besides listening to some of the music, I do not know a lot about it. And honestly, I never felt the need to. Even while reading this book I did not have any interest in the cultural aspect of it. I think that not even my parents, who grew up in the 80s would be interested in the special edition of dungeons and dragons or in a game, that was so underground that it could only be played on one specific type of computer.
I'm also NOT a fan of video games, the closest I ever got was playing the Sims fanatically when I was 12 (lol). So I never played any of these games, didn't understand anything they were talking about most of the time. I'm just not a gamer, I never will be and I do not want to be.
These two factors made it hard for me to get really into the book. It was like reading a fantasy novel, with many intricate and little details/trivia that I did not know about or understand, except it was a real life decade 40 years ago.
Most of the times when I'm reading a book that contains clues and riddles, I like to try to solve it along with the characters, to understand it. But in this case, I did not have any knowledge to do so, and even after I was presented with the answer it didn't "click" since I don't know any of these weird 80s Capt'n Crunch or Halliday facts. I wonder if people who grew up in the 80s would solve them on their own, since the possibilitie are literally endless. That made me feel like I couldn't completely dive into the story, I was always a spectator watching from the sidelines, waiting for the main character to figure things out and present them to me.
Overall it was a fun experience, and it reminded me a lot of Percy Jackson, but for grown ups.
P.s.: Am I really supposed to believe that these characters actually knew the entire script to not only one, but two movies, by heart? Nuh huh