First sentence: Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.
Premise/plot: Wade/Parzival is the gaming hero in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. He is one of many—perhaps millions—hunting the Easter egg that James Halliday hid within the OASIS. Three keys, three gates, one prize. Wade is the first to unlock the first key and gate. His sudden appearance on the score board brings opportunities and dangers. The hunter becomes the hunted...
Is the game worth risking your actual life?!
My thoughts: I read this one because I enjoyed the movie. I think I prefer the movie to the book. Perhaps because I am not a gamer and lack the imagination to world build in my mind?! Perhaps because the text just begs to be translated to film?! I don’t regret reading it. Now I know.
I didn’t like the language in the book. I knew it had adult language, profanity if you will. But I was hoping that the pull of the story would be strong enough to keep me distracted from being bothered. It wasn’t. Perhaps because I have seen the movie. Though it has been long enough that there could be great differences between the two and I would be clueless.
I would probably watch the movie again. But I won’t be rereading the book.
© 2020 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews
2 comments:
I haven't seen the movie they made of this book, I've only read the book. But I've heard good things about the movie.
I think it might depend on which you do first. I read the book first and enjoyed it. Maybe it helped that there were so many 80s references.
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