Has anyone else read "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline? Just finished reading it this week on my Kindle and thought it was pretty good. If you've read it, what did you think of it?
I read it not too long ago.
I thought it was pretty decent overall, but the emphasis on the main character's crush was irritating. It was also trying to be subversive sometimes but not following through--like the big reveal about Aech, whose situation I would expect to be the norm with something like the Oasis, or with Art3mis's hints about why Parzival wouldn't like her. The 80s trivia thing was also pushed way, way too hard--while I recognize that it was important to the plot, I felt like it took away from the narrative sometimes just by sheer excess.
I thought the Oasis was interesting and compelling though and would have liked to read more about how it worked and how it interacted with the real world.
It was
this close to being awesome, but fell just a bit short for me. I'd like to find a similar book that I'd like better but haven't found one.