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reviewed Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline, Ernest Cline: Ready Player One (Paperback, 2011, Crown Publishers) 4 stars

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American …

Review of 'Ready Player One' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

This book is absolute garbage. It is a one-celled animal in a Day-Glo banana hammock. Nothing more than a list of 80s references forced sideways into writing so abysmal that I've literally encountered better writing by third graders. It disgusted and angered me to consider the fact that this has been deemed worthy of publication. Bonus: the narrator is so solipsistic and sexist that I'd be shocked if the MRA crowd hasn't made him a hero. 100% the worst thing I've ever read, and its popularity is endlessly confusing and disappointing. Normally I try to just LPET (let people enjoy things) but this misbegotten pap is a pimple on the ass of literature and I am duty bound to oppose it with all my might.

Full disclosure, I tried twice but couldn't finish it because I have a modicum of self-preservation and self-respect left.