doug reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)
An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready?
Days after Oasis founder James …
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1 star
An utterly disappointing sequel.
Ready Player One was great because it fun and fresh and thrilling. Because of the story, not because of the writing. Even in spite of the writing. Because Ernest Cline is not a good writer.
RP2 takes the fresh/fun stuff from RP1, injects it with steroids, then hits copy & paste a million times. It's astounding (not really) that this book made it past his beta readers (including Stephen Spielberg) and editor.
The first 20% of the book is exposition. So is most of the remaining 80%.
Bad pacing? Check. Bad dialogue? Check. Wooden characters and an unsympathetic protagonist? Check. 13,000 adverbs in one book? Check.
Blech.