A Sequel So Bad, it Ruins the First Book | Ready Player Two Review, Part 1
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2021
- It's really telling when an author uses 150 pages to stage the worldbuilding, then uses less than half of that setup throughout the story.
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The thing that bothers me the most with this world: Where are the furries? A virtual world, where you can be any character you want? This place must swarm with furries.
Have I read the first book? No.
"Cyberstalking my Ex"
The 12-hour time limit is actually misleading. It's not "in twelve hours, half a billion people will die", it's "within twelve hours, all half billion people will be dead." Consider: I'm 11h50m into my gaming session when the update goes out. I'm dead in ten minutes, not twelve hours. In fact, that will be the case for the majority of players-the only ones who have the full twelve hours will be the ones who logged in just as the update goes out. In other words, ever single second Wade spends screwing around, hundreds of people are actively dying.
"If you're going to steal a plot line from an anime, why not steal a good one?!"
"SAO is just fanfiction of dot Hack!"
Wasn't Halliday's message at the end of "Ready Player One" something along the lines of:
This book honestly feels like it was written by that one kid in third grade who would make up outrageous lies about what his family owns.
The super advanced total immersion tech is used almost exclusively for sex.
The prequel should've been called "Press Start." It's still stupid, but there's no such thing as player zero, so it's not as stupid.
This world is unintentionally so sad- multiple generations just spending their entire life trying to learn everything about this weird old guy to win money and power, obsessing over movies, games and shows He loved, never developing any sense of self except 'i can recite an entire movie word for word' like big woop
The only line I remember from the book is "the game went Sonic.exe on us" and I think it should remain that way
Everytime I hear "a good christian boy/girl", I have Empress Theresa flashback.
Cline is the master of Tell don't Show. His idea of descriptive storytelling across both books is spouting a list of nerd pop-culture references without really describing what those things look like, assuming the reader knows what they are so they can have some sort of frame of reference, and then TELLING us that his super cool OC (do not steal), who is totally not a Gary Stu, did cool stuff with them.
How did Sam survive jumping out of the plane? Well, she got these coke bottles and a bin bag...
Cline's vision for how Wade becomes a "benevolent" monopolist perfectly and unironically illustrates HL Mencken's great line, “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve.” The people who feel strongly that the world should fit their vision, and Cline himself fits this mold, are almost always willing to accomplish it by force, disregarding differing opinions.
Just a reminder, the author absolutely lost his mind when everyone started reading random bits of his book out loud while endless mocking it. It was hilarious.
'Wade Got Laid' is a preferable title to 'Ready Player Two'.
I love that Cline has only his own three books on the shelves behind him in that interview. For someone who is supposedly obsessed with 80's nerd culture, he's apparently only interested in his own books about 80's nerd culture. Would've looked way cooler to have a bunch of 80's nerd stuff behind you, just sayin.