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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline

Start date: March 1, 2018

Finish date: March 31, 2018

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Apr 04, 2018 Adam rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-and-science-fiction

My reaction when I finished reading chapter one was: "Ah... This book wasn't written for me".

Which is fine. I'm not the centre of the universe.

But Cline uses references rather than descriptions and I don't care enough to look each of these references up to be "immersed". At a certain point, it just feels like lazy world-building that is preying on the reader's nostalgia. A nostalgia that I don't have, for a time during which I wasn't alive.

I do not get the impression that Cline has created a sin ...more

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Nov 25, 2015 Nico rated it it was amazing

Non sono una grande fan dei libri di genere sci-fi, però la copertina di questo libro mi ha incuriosita al punto di cercare qualche recensione online che mi ha convinta del tutto a leggerlo. Sono rimasta molto soddisfatta dalla narrazione e dal protagonista del romanzo. La trama forse non è delle più innovative ma sia le ambientazioni, sia i personaggi e le citazioni sono sublimi.
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Apr 25, 2018 Lara rated it liked it

Clumsy writing for sure. Predictable, but enjoyably so. A fun, easy read that I didn’t want to put down. Easy to overlook its faults. Overall story and plot gets 5 stars, but the writing definitely brings it down.

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