Ready Player Two

Hadn't even heard a second was in the works.

I enjoyed the first well enough and will read the second although I don't think it's necessary, probably should have been left as a stand alone novel. The second will have to be very well written for it to be worth it and not be a disappointment.

I enjoyed the first one immensely. The movie was crap. I'll wait to see what yall think about the second one before I give it a whirl.

RP1 was lightning in a bottle. I'm not sure Cline is a skilled enough writer to churn out good books. RP1 succeeded due to the story and nostalgia. It flowed wonderfully, and the characters were very likeable. However, the writing itself was awkward quite a few times, and it was riddled with cliches. I liked the book plenty, but its flaws were glaring.

I tried reading Armada, but like many others out there I couldn't do it. I just don't think he's a good wordsmith. Plus there really doesn't seem any need to continue this story.

I wonder if it's possible it takes place years later when he is ready to give it up. But it will have a more modern theme to it instead of 80s. If so, I don't think it will be good.

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When will they have time to develop their own culture or switch to being into 90s - 2000s pop culture?

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He was really young in the book. If he lives to be very old, that would give plenty of time for him to decide to dove into another era, and to make the changes needed in the Oasis. The question to me would be if the general public would want to experience any other decade in the extreme like the first book did for the 80s.

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What were y'alls impressions of ready player one?

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Loved it for what it was. Was not a great work of literature but it was a fun read full of nostalgia for someone like me who grew up in the 80s.

Also liked Armada.

That said, a sequel doesn’t really interest me.

RP1 is one of my all time favorite books. I'll go back to it a couple times a year, just for a quick listen on a road trip for work.

RP2 isn't going to be the same thing. Ranking Cline's book, it falls behind Armada by a pretty good bit.

To me, I read Armada and couldn't get Enders' Game out of my head. Reading RP2, I got the same vibe but with RP1. Not in the sense of this is a continuation of the same story, but an unhealthy rehashing of the same exact story.

I also had an issue with the wokeness. It was just unnecessary. It didn't add any development to the characters or context. Just woke for wokeness sakes.

To me, RP1 felt like something new and exciting, when you read RP2, you'll feel like you are reading a mashup of RP1 and a plethora of other movie/books dealing with AI.



It also feels like he read every forum discussing his book, looked at the comments that started with "I can't believe he didn't include... " and then included all of those things in book 2. No stone from the 80s or geek culture is left unturned, it seemed.

I’m 120 pages in, and it’s kinda hard to read. I’ve never been much of a reader, and hearing people say “this writer is terrible” never really made sense to me. But after finishing 2 Michael Crichton books and then reading this... i understand what people mean. There is just something about his adjectives... or lack of that bothers me. Still going to power through. Then on to Fellowship of the Ring.

Picked this up a few days ago and had to force myself to finish it. It’s awful.

And I loved RP1 and Armada.