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Syfrix reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Enjoyable extension to RPO

4 stars

If you liked Ready Player One for all it's geeky 80's references and the OASIS, you'll likely appreciate this book as well. It's nothing ground-breaking, but a very enjoyable read if you liked the style of RPO. I certainly liked this book better, than the film-adaption of RPO, it feels true to the earlier established universe. There are some common tropes and some bits can be predictable, but I was also pleasantly surprised in some sections and I'm happy with its ending.

jp 👾 reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Content warning ☢️ Spoiler ahead!

In summary: Sword Art Online plot plus San Jupinero

Patuleia reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Ready Player One was epic, this one is pretty dull

ranok@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

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Awful

seb reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

OK Read

3 stars

Isn't as fun to read as Ready Player One.

outofrange reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

More dead-on 80's nostalgia packaged in an entertaining story that pays homage by name to darker predecessors like Strange Days and Brainstorm.

Norbert reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

So gut der erste Teil war so schlecht ist der zweite. Spannung fehlt, viel Blabla und die Handlung ist naja. Man hätte mehr aus der Grundidee des Buches machen können. Es wirkt sehr erzwungen.

ASquareClaire reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Good book, it just had really big shoes to fill.

Michael reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

If you liked the first one, you'll like the sequel. It shares very similar strengths and flaws.

Trae reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Good read. I was concerned that it would just be a rehash and lip service to the previous book, but Cline was able to make a story that complimented the first book well. I would never tell an author that they cannot integrate commentary into their writings, but there were moments that Cline was rather preachy and pulled me out of the story. Some of this was really well integrated into the story, like the empathy the new tech provides, Ducky’s overlooked problems, and the overlooked women of early gaming development. But other times there were inserted comments that had no bearing to the story, was spoken about a few pages earlier, and really jars the reader away from the flow of the story. But easily overlooked as Cline does a great job.

debby_joyblue reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Wade starts out the second installment whiny. I was worried. This isn't quite as great as Ready Player One, but it's pretty great. It was certainly a boost during this depressing, isolated holiday season. [Wil Wheaton continues to be one of my favorite narrators.]

Tom Boucher reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

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5 stars

When I stumbled across Ready Player One it was new, it was different, and it was written for the nostalgia hitting spots for this kid who graduated from high school in 1989.

Then it became cool to hate the book, the author, and everything it stood for. I didn’t, I still hold a special place in my heart for Ready Player One.

When I saw this, I instantly got it on release and started to read it. By page 100 I was ready to put it down. I was so disgusted with what Percival had become by the end of the first act i almost put it down forever.

Then the second act kicker came in.

This book went through the mid life crisis anyone is going through looking back a their life as a kid, and how ‘nostalgic’ it was and how great you thought it was, it pokes …

When I stumbled across Ready Player One it was new, it was different, and it was written for the nostalgia hitting spots for this kid who graduated from high school in 1989.

Then it became cool to hate the book, the author, and everything it stood for. I didn’t, I still hold a special place in my heart for Ready Player One.

When I saw this, I instantly got it on release and started to read it. By page 100 I was ready to put it down. I was so disgusted with what Percival had become by the end of the first act i almost put it down forever.

Then the second act kicker came in.

This book went through the mid life crisis anyone is going through looking back a their life as a kid, and how ‘nostalgic’ it was and how great you thought it was, it pokes holes in every terrible thing the 80s were, and all the marginalized people, the sex objectified women, everything, rips them to shreds.

Then it brings back something I’ve been missing in 2020, a lot of hope.

I’m sure a lot of you will continue your ‘hate it cuz it’s cool’ mantra, but this to me felt like Mr Cline had a bit of an epiphany, and learned form it, and wrote something better than the first.