Review: Ready Player One
At first, I was interested as the book seemed to have an interesting premise at first, and I kept on reading hoping that at some point it would get better. There were two things I liked about this book, which I will state first.
1. The details and immersion of the Virtual Reality world in general (OASIS) and its numerous “planets”. The details were simple yet immersive at the same time and I could envision the virtual reality as described by the author.
2. The amount of knowledge Clime has about the 1980s is nothing to be sneezed at. There is reference after reference and it really is impressive. However, despite this, it does bog down the story a lot with all the info-dumping that I often skipped over.
I found the book dragged a lot, especially due to all the exposition about day-to-day life and it got tedious reading chapter after chapter with the plot brought to an absolute stand-still. It also didn’t help that a lot of elements were fairly predictable including the evil corporation and the romance (I could easily predict that Art3mis would be a thing of stunning beauty in real life and NOT as ugly as she believes herself to be. When a character starts complaining about being ugly, I know they’re about as ugly as Aphrodite on a bad day. Which is impossible, because Aphrodite would never have a bad day beauty-wise.) Eventually, toward the end, I decided to just skip to the final chapter and was completely unsurprised to see that the hero had saved the day and got his girl back and, of course, defeated the villain single-handedly. I had gotten tired of waiting for something satisfying to happen and I had other more promising-looking books I got out of the library staring at me.
So now I move on to a new book (as well as back to my other read, “The Doomsday Book”.)