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I enjoyed the first one, but the second one was a real let down. But it might also be that I stopped enjoying his writing and will find the first one equally as grating if I re-read that one.
I didnt hate ready player one but i dont think it deserved all the popularity and acclaim either.I was confused by what he wanted the target audience to be for this book. It reads like a run of the mill young adult novel but then is packed to the gills with 80s nostalgia. I guess it really just shows our decline in reading comprehension that it was so successful.
Man, I read Armada, why? Because it was free. I mean I’d heard it wasn’t good, but holy shit I was not expecting just how bad that novel would be. Ernest Cline is a one trick pony and the fact that it worked out so well for Ready Player One, and that a lot of people loved it, was pure luck, but it likely won’t hold up to time.
Cline desperately wants everyone to like the 80s as much as he apparently does and he really wants to show off his 80s trivial knowledge so badly, but no one will sit still to listen to him blather on so instead he wrote this book. It is got more 80s references packed in pound for pound than there is sawdust in chicken McNuggets. Like at first it’s just a quirky ha ha ok this character really likes his dad and his 80s memorabilia and crap, but then the action starts and the 80s references just don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming. He can’t even make it 5 minutes without dropping a reference. “Tense” (yeah, using that real loosely here) moment? Drop a reference. Character bleeding out? Drop a reference and one liner. Major character just died and you’re supposed to be sad? You guessed it, drop a fucking reference.
I only finished that book just so I could fully appreciate how fucking bad that novel was. This had to be the first time I’ve genuinely hate read a novel.
Fuck Cline. He should have kept his shitty writing in the dark so I could have continued to appreciate Ready Player One as a fun little read that I enjoyed so much the first time around I killed the book in one day. Now? I doubt I’ll pick it up again. Especially after that god awful movie.
Two was kinda trash. I read them back to back and it just was not anywhere near as good as the first.
RPO tapped into some deep seated fantasy from my childhood. Much like Harry Potter it wasn’t very well written, but that doesn’t matter when you’re half lost in your own imagination the whole time.
Kinda suits it, with the title, right?
I liked the first book. As long as you take it for what it is, 80s nostalgia fluff it’s a solid mindless read. Ready player 2 was just not good. Not even as fluff. Really all over the place, the main character was not the main character, and im not sure that Cline realized it.
the last starfighter fanficArmada, just dont.Look, if you’re gonna make something about secrets in a game you have to know the first thing about players, they will find that shit AND ask why theres not more in the first few hours. I straight up turned the movie off after that secret with backing up in the beginning of the race. Some child who doesnt know how to drive would accidentally find that in the first week of release. Similarly, I deleted the book without ever opening the file after that.
You should actually read the book. The movie is absolute shit, and the first “puzzle” with the race is entirely made up for the movie; it’s not at all in the book. The movie changes a lot of actual references to video games and nerd culture and also misses the point with a lot of shit overall.
The movie just kinda missed the point on a lot of stuff, I didn’t think very highly of it at all.
Maybe I will, I am getting into The Culture series,though I dont think its what I thought it was. I need me some scifi to read so if this doesnt stick I’ll give a try, and I can queue it up next regardless. Thank you for telling me.
I’ve heard to skip the first novel of the Culture series, I read it and kinda bounced off of it from a prose standpoint because it’s very 80s sci fi, so the rest of the series probably isn’t for me.
