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A review by ruzgofdi
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
5.0
I felt like the perfect audience for this book. As I sit here in front of my computer and look around the room I have it set up in, and see the various books, dvds, games (video/board/card/rp), and collectible items scattered around, I feel like in the setting of this book I would have been in one of the various chat rooms that are settings for this story. Well, probably different ones than the ones the characters use, just because I don't think I became a pop culture junky until the 90s instead of the 80s, but still. But I'd be logged into OASIS longer than was probably healthy, working on earning the credits to pick up the next licenced starship from a franchise I loved to add to a collection.
The problem with being the perfect audience for this book is also looking at some of the things the main character does and wanting to smack him up the back side of his head. There was a section early on where I couldn't help but wonder how someone that spends so much time online can be this stupid about computer safety. Granted, once a little bit of this lack of intelligence comes back to bite him fairly quickly, and he gets much more careful about such things from that point on. But I still get this feeling that if there was ever another book in this universe about these characters, we'd find out that the other shoe was going to drop because of a lack of thinking.
I blitzed through this book in 2 days. The last time I did that was with one of the Harry Potter books. And both were cases of needing to get the book finished so I could get my head out of the story so I could do important things like sleep again.
The problem with being the perfect audience for this book is also looking at some of the things the main character does and wanting to smack him up the back side of his head. There was a section early on where I couldn't help but wonder how someone that spends so much time online can be this stupid about computer safety. Granted, once a little bit of this lack of intelligence comes back to bite him fairly quickly, and he gets much more careful about such things from that point on. But I still get this feeling that if there was ever another book in this universe about these characters, we'd find out that the other shoe was going to drop because of a lack of thinking.
I blitzed through this book in 2 days. The last time I did that was with one of the Harry Potter books. And both were cases of needing to get the book finished so I could get my head out of the story so I could do important things like sleep again.