I have a lot of mixed feelings about Ready Player One. All in all, I enjoyed it, but it took work. The biggest challenge for me is that I have no particular affection for the 80s. I found a lot of the book to be, as other reviewers have put it, useless nostalgia porn. It wasn’t until the end that Cline had enough depth and tension to tell a compelling story, but he didn’t do very much with it. Was he trying to? I doubt it and in the end, that’s fine. The book was fun and, for many people, entertaining. But for me, it didn’t live up to the hype.
Ready Player One
By Ernest Cline 2011
★★★
Written by Matt McManus - Permanent Link
