Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline

Ready Player Two

By Ernest Cline

  • Release Date: 2020-11-24
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
4 Score: 4 (From 2,535 Ratings)

Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal

AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.

Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible.
 
With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.
 
And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants.
 
Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
 
Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.

Reviews

  • Dystopian lightheartedness

    4
    By narakku
    Oxymoronic but nonetheless true. It was a fun enough read and the stakes were high enough. A fun read for me.
  • Zero stars

    1
    By DankStew
    I hate this book but iBooks won’t let me delete it from making a duo with the first release in my library. This is horrible. I don’t even own this dumb book yet here we are.
  • Awful

    1
    By Randy 953683
    He ruined the entire thing with a weak story line and political lectures. Just pretend this book doesn’t exist.
  • Big let down

    2
    By Billrs
    What an utter disappointment. How could he go from Joust, giant Japanese robots and War Games to a love letter to Prince? In its current state, this will never be made into a movie and should never had been published. I had such high hopes for this follow up but alas…. It was not meant to be. So sad.
  • Ready Player Two….?

    1
    By S1monSays
    I really enjoyed the first book, but this one…it seemed like reading an essay that had a max word count that repeated the same concept over and over in almost the same words, over and over, just to meet the required amount of words….it could of been great
  • Ready Player 2

    4
    By AJ3
    Good, but not quite as good as the first book. A little too wordy. All the descriptions of getting the shard from the Prince’s were way too long.
  • Really good sequel.

    5
    By Mech360
    I saw a few reviews complaining. I don’t see why. Almost everything plays fine into the story and future humanity. The nods to pop culture were so detailed I learned stuff I thought I would have known. I want this as a movie! My 9 year old Daughter permanently leaves Ready Player One in the Blu-ray.
  • Aweful

    1
    By Sputnick1986
    When I read this book, I instantly knew it had to have been written in 2020, with all the woke references. I feel people were excited for a sequel, but it wont age well, and it just reads like cheap virtue signaling to make a quick buck, and sell movie rights before people forget the first one, and the actors getting too old. Sad to see a writer ruin his own story by rushing out this hack job of a continuation.
  • Too many social issues

    2
    By sockmonkey18
    I feel like it would have been a better read without going into all of the current social issues: Racism, sexism, identity etc. Otherwise I felt the 80s theme was over the top and parts dragged in story line.
  • Embarrassingly bad prose. Shallow character development. Unoriginal plot.

    2
    By Trystero Montevideo
    This follow-up has none of the fun and magic of the first. This is not the insightful exploration of life in the metaverse that you may have been looking for or expecting after RP1.

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