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A review by madiganinwonderland
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
5.0
I loved this book. It absolutely deserves it's title as a modern classic. This was so much fun and terrifying and also incredibly eerie accurate of where our future is headed.. Probably the most accurate I've read in a long time.. Terrifying.
My only issues that might make me give it more of a 4.5-4.75 is for one, the 80s stuff is a bit much. I can get obsessive about a decade as much as the next person but this was just too much. It's like Cline was required to fit everything 80s pop culture (or obscure video game/movie trivia) of the time and it just got a little annoying after a while.
The next issue I have is with what happened in the end with the love interest and her revealing herself in reality. I wanted to see more stigma about getting to change your appearance in the Oasis. It felt very generic and manic pixie like to me. But you can't expect one book to cover so much.
It's weird that I've owned this book for nearly 10 years and only now just read it, able to hop into the second one most never thought we'd get. But I'm interested as to where Cline will take the story. I didn't think I'd want to continue, and would take this as a stand alone but I'm actually invested now and it's worth the interest I hope.
My only issues that might make me give it more of a 4.5-4.75 is for one, the 80s stuff is a bit much. I can get obsessive about a decade as much as the next person but this was just too much. It's like Cline was required to fit everything 80s pop culture (or obscure video game/movie trivia) of the time and it just got a little annoying after a while.
The next issue I have is with what happened in the end with the love interest and her revealing herself in reality. I wanted to see more stigma about getting to change your appearance in the Oasis. It felt very generic and manic pixie like to me. But you can't expect one book to cover so much.
It's weird that I've owned this book for nearly 10 years and only now just read it, able to hop into the second one most never thought we'd get. But I'm interested as to where Cline will take the story. I didn't think I'd want to continue, and would take this as a stand alone but I'm actually invested now and it's worth the interest I hope.