Ready Player Two

Ready Player One, #2

by Ernest Cline, David Tejera Expósito

Paperback, 464 pages

Español language

Published March 24, 2021 by Nova.

ISBN:: 978-84-18037-08-5
Goodreads:: 56582094

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Días después de ganar la competición ideada por James Halliday, el fundador de OASIS, Wade Watts hace un descubrimiento que lo cambia todo. Oculto en las cajas fuertes de Halliday y a la espera de que lo encuentre su heredero, se halla un avance tecnológico que volverá a cambiar el mundo y convertirá a OASIS en un lugar mil veces más asombroso (y adictivo) de lo que Wade jamás habría creído posible. Dicho avance da pie a un nuevo acertijo y a una nueva misión, un último Huevo de Pascua de Halliday que da a entender que existe un misterioso premio. Wade también se encontrará con un nuevo rival muy peligroso, increíblemente poderoso y capaz de matar a millones de personas para conseguir lo que quiere. La vida de Wade y el futuro de OASIS vuelven a estar en juego, pero en esta ocasión también pende de un hilo el …

Con una nostalgia y una originalidad que solo podrían salir de la mente de Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two nos adentra de nuevo en su querido universo virtual, embarcándonos en otra aventura imaginativa, divertida y llena de acción, y vuelve a impresionarnos con su apasionante representación del futuro.

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

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This was an unexpected sequel.

Anyway, Ernest Cline is an expert on escapism. He is so good at it, that at the ending of the first book even after his explicit warning against going too far burying your head into the sand, you are still left thinking how awesome the Oasis and the whole quest for the 3 keys was. After reading this book it seems that he wanted to amend his mistake, so he toned down his barrage of references (there is still plenty, but I honestly loved the sheer opulence of them in the first book) and he acknowledged Wades many personal flaws that I personally couldn't see back in high school (I was a dumb nerdy kid) and this time he was going to hammer the point home... After the first book Wade learned nothing, got worse, got better, put everyone into the Sword Art Online Situation (everyone's brains got stuck in the Oasis and no one could log off) then gone on a new quest to learn his lesson this time...

And the lesson is that escapism is mighty dangerous, but GOD do we need it. Just look at 2020.

WE LEARNED NOTHING.

Basically that is the core of it, but because it seems I am one of the first to review the book after reading it I don't want to say more about the plot in order to avoid spoilers.

Short version: If you liked the first book you will find something to like in this one too.

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

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2 stars

This wound up being a huge disappointment. There were too many various sub-plots going on simultaneously, and major plot holes (for example, why is it that the NPCs were rigged to go "rogue" across the OASIS, but conveniently every NPC that the main characters interacted with were completely on point?). Just a mess, and the ending felt like the half-baked futuristic utopia spouted out in a moment of euphoria by someone tripping on acid.