I found the book kind of insufferable, so I never bothered with the movie. Every ‘puzzle’ was solved by the protagonist saying something like ‘fortunately, I’d memorised the entire script of War Games’ or something. I started to wonder how many lifetimes it’d take to actually learn and memorise all that stuff.
That’s my thought on both the book and the movie. Perhaps its not the book’s fault. There was so much hype surrounding it when it came out I thought it must be awesome. Instead I found the same simply story I’d read in a dozen other books, except this one drowning in a sea of 80s and 90s pop culture references. If it was a simply summer read without the hype I likely would have liked it for what it was.
I had similar disappointment when I finally read Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”. I read that same type of story a dozen times in other much better books but everyone was saying it was a groundbreaking book.
EVERY SINGLE CHOICE made in Ready Player One. What a disappointment.
I found the book kind of insufferable, so I never bothered with the movie. Every ‘puzzle’ was solved by the protagonist saying something like ‘fortunately, I’d memorised the entire script of War Games’ or something. I started to wonder how many lifetimes it’d take to actually learn and memorise all that stuff.
That’s my thought on both the book and the movie. Perhaps its not the book’s fault. There was so much hype surrounding it when it came out I thought it must be awesome. Instead I found the same simply story I’d read in a dozen other books, except this one drowning in a sea of 80s and 90s pop culture references. If it was a simply summer read without the hype I likely would have liked it for what it was.
I had similar disappointment when I finally read Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”. I read that same type of story a dozen times in other much better books but everyone was saying it was a groundbreaking book.