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A review by a_leo_reading
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4.0
Ernest Cline's novel is a definitely geek heaven with:
All of the references.
An in-depth history of every little thing.
Amazing world building, breathtaking action, and full of dark adult humor.
Ernest Cline did a great job of building the world of not only OASIS (the online VR world) but also the outside reality, how the earth is dying, resources are running out, and all humans are placing themselves into the OASIS as an escape.
Though I enjoyed all of the characters, even the antagonist(s), as with most novels I did not like the main character/narrator. Due to his constant over intelligence (or like thereof), Wade was still an oddly closed minded person for someone whose life exists in an online world of endless possibilities.
For most works of literature and different forms of media, I never like the use of constant use of unnecessary nostalgia for the purposes of the plot (looking at you Stanger Things). But with Ready Player One, it was a fully necessary use of all pop culture for the plot.
Throughout the novel, even though this is a kick-ass novel filled with mecha robots, magic, and epic battles, the plot slowed down for unnecessary moments of purely dumb reasons, because of wade and his over intelligence (or the lack thereof).
All in all, I would give "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline 4.5 stars out of 5.
--P.S, I already know the film adaptation is going to be nowhere near as amazing and also a major let down in general. With so much censoring and also changes with the plot for dumb reasons.
All of the references.
An in-depth history of every little thing.
Amazing world building, breathtaking action, and full of dark adult humor.
Ernest Cline did a great job of building the world of not only OASIS (the online VR world) but also the outside reality, how the earth is dying, resources are running out, and all humans are placing themselves into the OASIS as an escape.
Though I enjoyed all of the characters, even the antagonist(s), as with most novels I did not like the main character/narrator. Due to his constant over intelligence (or like thereof), Wade was still an oddly closed minded person for someone whose life exists in an online world of endless possibilities.
For most works of literature and different forms of media, I never like the use of constant use of unnecessary nostalgia for the purposes of the plot (looking at you Stanger Things). But with Ready Player One, it was a fully necessary use of all pop culture for the plot.
Throughout the novel, even though this is a kick-ass novel filled with mecha robots, magic, and epic battles, the plot slowed down for unnecessary moments of purely dumb reasons, because of wade and his over intelligence (or the lack thereof).
All in all, I would give "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline 4.5 stars out of 5.
--P.S, I already know the film adaptation is going to be nowhere near as amazing and also a major let down in general. With so much censoring and also changes with the plot for dumb reasons.