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[litandlifequotes]

People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[ostriches-because-i-said-so]

Wade Watts, from the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and also the movie based on the book, is a super nerd. And to prove it I'll make the bold claim that his knowledge on James Halliday is almost or maybe even equal to MatPat's knowledge of FNAF. Just throwing it out there.

[explodingsilver]

Ready Player One occupies a fascinating space in my brain. It's bad, but in a specific way that makes me suspect I have more in common with the author than I do with most of his critics.

[oblivion-books]

“ I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.”  

ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ―   Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

[stainlesssteellocust]

Am I talking nonsense or is there a pattern regarding, like…00’s-era nerdcore stories, usually ones involving cool and witty Geek Heroes and all, where they all end up portraying their leads as somewhat less heroic than they initially let on through the power of unreliable narration, and end up focusing on their characters flaws, and re-examine their relationships with women, especially whichever flavour of “she’s totally out of his league but fell for him anyway” love interest they may have ended up with?

Scott Pilgrim, Ready Player One/Two, the Laundry Files, the Dresden Files too from what I’m told…

which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened, what, at least three or four times.

[thelastofthebookworms]

You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post.

[the-lady-hestia]

My library is taking a minute to fulfill my interlibrary loan request so I started listening to the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline to fill the gaping emptiness of ADHD boredom.

The comments under this post will mainly be me making niche jokes and shitposts about this very odd, yet very charming book

Enjoy

[imaginemyreality03]

🕹️👨‍💻An escape is only an escape if you still live most of your life in reality👨‍💻🕹️

🛑SPOILERS AHEAD🛑

(YES EVEN IF YOU SAW THE MOVIE)

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Read: January 27 -> January 31, 2024

BRA Score: 79/100

Favorite Quote: “No one in the world gets what they want and that’s beautiful.” - Wade, Pg?

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Book Gist: Wade is growing up in 2045, with nothing and no one to his name. His saving grace from a life of boredom and loneliness: The Hunt. The creator of the most used product in the world, The OASIS, left behind a challenge when he died 5 years ago that whoever can solve all the clues, pass every challenge, and collect every key will win his Easter Egg, which will make the winner richer than their wildest dreams, and give them full control over the OASIS. Wade isn’t the only one searching, millions of OASIS users have had their hands in the hunt, but the most dangerous is by far the Sixers of IOI, the quickly-monopolizing second tech company that will corrupt and destroy the sanctuary that Halliday built in the OASIS to turn it into another capitalist endeavor. Wade is trying to win it before IOI can, but if he is so poor he can’t even leave his school’s planet, how is supposed to solve anything?

Tags: SciFi, YA, Virtual Reality, Violence, Future-set

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Overall Review:

Pre-read:

The movie is by far one of my most favorite films of all time. I can pick it up at any point and immediately start quoting word for word. It’s my comfort film.

That being said, this read was highly anticipated, and I have not circled back yet to read Ready Player Two (though it’s on my list for next month because I am very excited that the sequel film was green lit).

Plot:

And, I think because I’ve lived the movie for years, I wasn’t made about how different the book was, BECAUSE my source material was the film, knowing the film was adapting the novel. I wasn’t attached one way or another on seeing parts of the book in the film. And because I have a mind for film, and how adaptions work, I could recognize why such significant parts of the story had to be changed, like the fact that there are 6 challenges (one per key and one per gate), or Daito and Sho being related, or iROK’s entire character (he drove me crazy tbh). To bring that to film would be such a struggle, because it’s so well layered and incorporated in the novel, with the pace and the plot structure, keeping that would not be plausible for a film timeframe and a bit too busy for the attention span of a film viewer.

Worldbuilding:

What I also really loved about the book was the detail! It was all so intricate and so reference heavy. It goes so much deeper in the book than it ever went in the film, and I love that. Because I’m the kind of person who can identify a detail as it is presented that’s meant to be hidden only to be very important later on, this book had me on the edge of my seat, I had no clue what would matter and what wouldn’t, which is exactly the reason why Halliday’s Hunt was so hard in the first place, so I really felt right in the middle of it all.

Romantic Sub-Plot:

Wade and Samantha’s relationship was a lot less interesting and a lot less necessary in the book, I felt. I didn’t really feel their chemistry much. I think their friendship only culminating in a relationship post-egg (or even moments before the final battle) would have been a lot better, especially if they had previously acknowledged that they had feelings for each other, but it didn’t feel right to explore that side of their relationship yet.

Wade:

Also!!!! Dude, Wade is so much fucking smarter than the film makes him!! He freaking infiltrates IOI (which is so much more awful in the book) and takes them all down from the inside and then freaking escapes!! Sam was legit just allowed anywhere she wanted and then walked out in the movie. He is a literal genius.

Cast:

Losing Daito IRL really made the stakes more intense than in the film, even with the stacks blowing up and the car chase. I was really sad for a while with that one, especially for Sho.

[quotelr]

What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called 'heaven' where there is no pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There's no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.Sorry.

Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

[am-molloy]

Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

I saw the movie when it came out and had no idea it was based on a book. Years later, I finally snagged a copy of the book to see if it was as good as the movie. Normally I always say the book is better than the movie, but in this case, they are both equally as good. Because while the film has the same plot premise as the book (gunters, the sixers, the hunt for the egg contest, and characters, to name a few), how everything ends up happening is entirely different. Like, vastly different. And I love that. It's like I can experience both forms of media for the first time while still getting the same content if that makes sense.

Now I haven't read any reviews of the book, but I get the feeling many people would say this book is a HUGE info dump for the entire book. And it is. But it's written in a way that doesn't feel that way, at least to me. I loved learning about all the cool things mentioned in this book. I loved learning how our not-so-distant future became the way it is. (And honestly, I can see it happening, the way our course is heading).

Info dumping aside, this book was a blast to read. The concept was super interesting, and as a huge nerd and gamer myself, I loved reading all the references and learning more about them. It was cool to see Wade start from nothing and build his avatar up. He's smart and probably has a photographic memory for all the stuff he's memorized. I can barely remember my own age, let alone all the things he's learned in order to win the contest.

If you're a fan of YA dystopian books, 80s nostalgia, Japanese media, old-school games, and just general geekery like myself, this book is for you. And I also recommend the movie, as it's also its own experience.

[satirn]

ready player one[BOOK NOT THE MOVIE] has got me in a choke hold god damn

[leo-delbosque]

My Ready Player One Fan art!

I had a lot of fun creating this idea! It was a wonderful design experience for me!

First to the Key!

[beautyarchive]

Olivia Cooke in Ready Player One (2018).

In the movie, they talk about Halliday’s fear of kissing the girl he likes. It’s not a fear of the kiss, it’s a fear that the attempted kiss will be rejected leaving him feeling like an undesirable fool.

[ikeharris128]

"Going outside is highly overrated."

[explodingsilver]

One scene from Ready Player One that I do feel is emblematic for the book as a whole, and my experience reading it, is when the protagonist has to reenact the entirety of War Games as Matthew Broderick's character, including receiving bonus points for getting the inflection of his lines right. It reminded me of how back in middle school, I decided to check out this "fanfiction" thing I had heard so much about, and one of the first stories I found was just the straight-up unaltered plot of the source material but with the author's fursona along for the ride.

The thing is, the author did not do anything wrong by writing this story. But I also did not do anything wrong by not sticking around long enough to find out if this character ever affected the plot.