Did anyone else find Ready Player One to be overrated?

Not overrated, but as a kid of the 80s the literal constant barrage of references did get tiresome at a few points and ruined the flow of the story.

It usually recovered, but I feel like the writer opened up that Retro 80s website/encyclopedia and just wrote stuff to use it all.

I can't find that website anymore, but it's been around for awhile.

I still loved the book, because I love the 80s, but it was a bit much at points.

I thought it was okay. It's one of the most hated books on reddit, though. Not that that says much

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It was sold to me as a fun, slightly sci-fi story with a ton of 80's references.

That's exactly what it was. I never really expected a masterpiece of literature.

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This.

No.

I'm not even a big 80's fan, but I really liked it.

Overrated isn’t the word I would use. Maybe redundancy is a better term. Had I read the book before the all things 80’s nostalgia orgasm after having watched Stranger Things on Netflix, for example, the sudden surge in popularity of D&D, then I might have enjoyed the book more than I did.

I read it before I really heard anything about it. So I rather liked it.

That said, the movie trailer looks like shite

I really enjoyed it the first time I listened to it, with all the fun references and mash-ups of genre's. Once those fun references lose their shine though, the underlying story is very mediocre. My main problem was, on second reading, I hated the protagonist. He just came off as kinda a creep to me.

I enjoyed it but I agree it wasn't as awesome as advertised. I never got the feeling that it would ever not turn out best for our hero so that really affected the story for me- he had to overcome so many obstacles and I felt like there was no way he wouldn't.

And I'm probably showing my "white privilege" but all of the SJW stuff wasn't needed. The world is what it is due to climate change. One player is a black lesbian (whose mom kicked her out of the house because of her being gay) but chooses a white guy icon because it's so much easier. It was like he was checking boxes on what cultural remarks a current Hollywood script would require. Maybe he was and that's why it's being made into a movie...