yacoob
I was hoping for something better.To put it in most blunt terms I can: the difference between a nostalgia book and Ready Player One is the difference between a good fscking and a porn movie. Even if the moves are the same, you can see there's no engagement. And that's the problem of this book - it throws a lot of facts but lacks a certain style to make it more appealing. Granted, this book is abundant with 80s and 90s references, but they're just lying in stacks around, with little if no purpose. That's not how you should do it. It's a bit like those Patrick Stewart pictures with title “Use the Force, Harry. – Gandalf.” Very densely mixed up references with little if no purpose to them.As for the story goes - it's Cory Doctorow's FTW minus ideology plus Young Adult sauce. Straightforward story, properly executed - nothing extraordinary about it, nothing wrong. Very digestible form, it took me two evenings to crunch through it.To wrap it up: neat idea, but execution could use some polish. You'll have some fun, but do not expect much. Some cringeworthy passages (ie. the one about OASIS elections), beware.
I was hoping for something better.To put it in most blunt terms I can: the difference between a nostalgia book and Ready Player One is the difference between a good fscking and a porn movie. Even if the moves are the same, you can see there's no engagement. And that's the problem of this book - it throws a lot of facts but lacks a certain style to make it more appealing. Granted, this book is abundant with 80s and 90s references, but they're just lying in stacks around, with little if no purpose. That's not how you should do it. It's a bit like those Patrick Stewart pictures with title “Use the Force, Harry. – Gandalf.” Very densely mixed up references with little if no purpose to them.As for the story goes - it's Cory Doctorow's FTW minus ideology plus Young Adult sauce. Straightforward story, properly executed - nothing extraordinary about it, nothing wrong. Very digestible form, it took me two evenings to crunch through it.To wrap it up: neat idea, but execution could use some polish. You'll have some fun, but do not expect much. Some cringeworthy passages (ie. the one about OASIS elections), beware.