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Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2) by Ernest Cline - ★★★★
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dictated but not read.
I read the new book by Ernest Cline. It came out a few days ago. Ready Player, too. I enjoyed the book, but there was also a couple of times where I almost threw the book across the room, because the characters were acting so stupid.
Ready Player Two is the story of a continued story of the characters from Ready Player One. And unfortunately, without going into spoilers yet. It has the same plot, as the first book. Yes, it's another chase for another video game easter egg. Hopefully, bringing the characters back together as they drifted apart. Hopefully, making them fall in love again, just like in Ready Player One, when the characters came together chased an Easter egg and fell in love. Let's go ahead and turn spoilers on there is actually a good chance that many of you will read this book, or at least see the movie so I would hate to spoil that spoilers coming in now obviously don't read the next paragraph. Let's talk grand overview, the book mainly exists within three worlds. Three Worlds that I'm not sure you choose. If you were choosing to make a game about or a movie about video games. I would think of the Oasis more as a world of video games, as they did in the first movie. They made many changes to the quests in the first movie they were more video game related to the book. However, in the second movie it really seems like the author has gone off in his own direction, highlighting his own favorite things. Audience be damned. So the main quests of the book without too much spoiling take place in john Hughes world. Prince world, and JRR Tolkien world. So interesting choices. The general plot. An evil AI comes back and starts another game where they have to find seven pieces of gems to put them together to dot dot dot. That's interesting. In the end, how much sci fi ground they cover, and how quickly they cover it good reminder to other sci fi writers, you can just write up a paragraph and invent anything, even a virtual reality that you can see and feel and touch. You could even invent immortality. It's just a word away. Very filled with references. Like the previous book overflowing with references I'd say there's one paragraph where he said it was like Yoda, it was like Highlander, it was like this it was like, and it's just it's just four references in a paragraph, and if you don't know any of those references. It was like four random movies you don't know. Fortunately, I knew most of the references there were a couple that slipped by me. I looked one of them up, and one of them I still can't find some. If you can explain to me why he's thinking crom as thanking God. I'd love to hear it. It's not cron the daily tasking software. crom I mean it's not the act or chrome well, or the the politician. No know I don't know who kromm is but it's a weird reference I couldn't find it on the internet of internet thinks that I'm Miss typing the word Chrome. When I write crop. So, non searchable.
Think kind of the best part of the book, where the needle drops that began to start during the john Hughes section and continued during the print section, took me a while but eventually I gave in and listen to about half of the john Hughes song and songs and half of the prince songs. Thanks to the magic of Siri or Alexa or whatever you'd like to talk to you can now order up a song, almost instantly. And that's what I did. So suggested reading style. Whenever he mentions a song. Grab your phone and tell your phone to play the song. Even if you haven't heard it or don't like it. Don't worry, he'll mention another song before that song is over, and you'll find yourself just grooving along to some john Hughes 80s music to some print music. And then there's still a couple of random needle drops that come up later in the book so it's still a fun game to keep playing. But not as active as during the HQs or print sections. How are they going to film this movie well they better get a good deal with john Hughes's john Hughes is a state, and they also better get a good deal with Prince's estate, and they're probably going to do to deal with terror tokens estate as well. So once again, it's a major copyright issue getting this movie to screen. I wouldn't be surprised if they swapped out prints for Steven Tyler and take you to Aerosmith land, just because he's still alive, it'd be a lot easier to film the print stuff did sound good on paper. I mean one minor note, it was tough to take a lot of the battles and things seriously. During the john Hughes world they did seem to know everything in advance and just what point to point during the prints world one of the other characters seem to know everything in advance and they just went point to point. And the JRR Tolkien world. They were missing the character who knew everything so they fumbled around until she showed up, and then they went point to point. So nothing was really at threat. Despite the fact that the book did kill one of the Samurai brothers, and the movie did not. That's of course easily solved you just write the kid into the new movie and say there's five of them instead of four, whatever it is, it's not difficult. Also would have been nice to have some back and forth with the other team that was questing to get a sword. We never really went over to their POV turns out we had a certain kind of narrator, I won't reveal that, but all in all, I read it in like two or three days so it must be a good book. When I find a book that's more fun to read, I can't put it down I have to keep reading it. I find other forms of entertainment on equal to the book. If I could turn on a movie screen and watch the rest of the book I would, but I have to do it on my imagination. And fortunately, I'm a quick reader, so I have no problems doing this and I absorbed really well. I enjoyed Ready Player One, or, sorry. I've been saying that the whole time. I enjoyed reading player two, I suggest you read it. It's a fun quick read. Pretty easy if you know all the references. If you don't know all the references I don't know that you'd enjoy it. So, basically you have to go watch every john Hughes film. I didn't know exactly all the press, Prince references, but listening to the songs, really made it real. And then the Tolkien references are super heavy references from the silmarillion that no one would get myself including included like the character in the book. I have not tackled the super brilliant. And I agree with him I don't even think it's a story. It's more like an encyclopedia or a textbook. So
I gave four out of five stars to Ready Player One that Ready Player Two. And that seems fair, mainly I didn't like the characters flippancy about discovering the VR rigs that you could touch and feel that seemed way too easy. It seems way too easy that one person or one company now has made perfect VR worlds. Perfect touch and feel VR. And I don't know if you want a spoiler for the end but he wake me makes one more crazy invention. A couple actually, and it gets to be a little Halt and Catch fire, where one minute. It makes sense and they're working on a PC clone. And then the next minute they're discovering anti virus then they invent America Online then they invent doom. And it's just a little much for one crew to invent everything in the world. So that was a little tough to take and yeah they, they released the touch and feel headsets, way too easily with no thought of the consequence. A little later they dip back and they get a little bit more into the consequences at least one of their member could see the obvious problems of these headset rigs, and the obvious potential of people to be locked in the oasis. A kind of gloss over a lot of that I thought that was pretty weak. So I thought the characters were a little young adult, they just kind of jump into bed with each other and they just jumped veto their relationships last forever and they never move on and that kind of obsessive. They also did a lot to destroy the character of James Halliday. It's interesting as a person coming off of the movies, not the books it's, I read the book.
I read the book long before I saw the movie and of course the movies mostly replaced the book in my mind. The movie has a bit more of a heartwarming ending, about turning off the Oasis every Thursday and spending more time in the real world and getting a girlfriend. And it also seems to kind of reform. The Garth like character of James Halliday at the end of the book that he had learned through his life that he made mistakes and that he didn't pay attention to this girl that he could have had and he didn't pay attention to the real world well. They pretty much have him. They make it sentimental. In the movie, by the end of the book you're, you're sentimental for the founder you're sentimental for these kids. It's just a beautiful sentimental like, you know, enjoy your time on earth don't play too many video games and waste your life kind of love fest, which is an ironic message for very video game movie. That would probably be a good video game in itself to work on it. And this book, eviscerates and destroys the character while he still does the have the reforming end, it's more of his life that we focus on and more of his obsession with what turns out later to be his friend's wife. They both matter at the same time they both liked her, but holiday is shown to be an anti social weirdo. While his friend. org, apparently is the love of her life and fits like a key and a lock.
It was too bad to see all the hate on James Halliday after the previous book lauded him with so much love giving him credit for inventing the contest. Also, all of the characters in the previous book, even all the characters in the world, in the previous book, were obsessed with James Halliday wanting basically to transform their mind into his mind, so that they would be able to solve these clues and when the easter egg. And the first book you describes watching volumes and volumes of 80s television like family ties and other shows that probably don't mean anything to them. But means something to them because they're trying to become holiday to get the easter egg that's all gone. In this second book nobody wants to become holiday. The character even talks many times about giving up his hero worship of the great holiday. So that's a change. And maybe not for the better. I had thought at some points that perhaps it was not even holidays quest, and could have been a quest made by another character. Also, it gets a little absurd that holidays designing quests inside of quests. on his deathbed, while he's learning all these lessons about life and thinking that the best use of these lessons is to program them into a game to make his heir, try to learn the same lessons.
I enjoyed Ready Player One I don't know if they'll be already player three. He doesn't quite, quite exactly write it out but he does kind of show the character at the end but he's, He's tired of the virtual world. After getting locked in it for 12 hours straight. They also say that he's not going to use the touch and feel headsets anymore, but there's really no reason, I mean it was just because he got, add some hacking problems and such but check out Ready Player to do available on Amazon. Amazon Kindle. You can download it wherever you want to download things. So check it out. Thanks so much for reading and listening. and until next time. Bye bye.
Transcribed by https://otter.ai
dictated but not read.
I read the new book by Ernest Cline. It came out a few days ago. Ready Player, too. I enjoyed the book, but there was also a couple of times where I almost threw the book across the room, because the characters were acting so stupid.
Ready Player Two is the story of a continued story of the characters from Ready Player One. And unfortunately, without going into spoilers yet. It has the same plot, as the first book. Yes, it's another chase for another video game easter egg. Hopefully, bringing the characters back together as they drifted apart. Hopefully, making them fall in love again, just like in Ready Player One, when the characters came together chased an Easter egg and fell in love. Let's go ahead and turn spoilers on there is actually a good chance that many of you will read this book, or at least see the movie so I would hate to spoil that spoilers coming in now obviously don't read the next paragraph. Let's talk grand overview, the book mainly exists within three worlds. Three Worlds that I'm not sure you choose. If you were choosing to make a game about or a movie about video games. I would think of the Oasis more as a world of video games, as they did in the first movie. They made many changes to the quests in the first movie they were more video game related to the book. However, in the second movie it really seems like the author has gone off in his own direction, highlighting his own favorite things. Audience be damned. So the main quests of the book without too much spoiling take place in john Hughes world. Prince world, and JRR Tolkien world. So interesting choices. The general plot. An evil AI comes back and starts another game where they have to find seven pieces of gems to put them together to dot dot dot. That's interesting. In the end, how much sci fi ground they cover, and how quickly they cover it good reminder to other sci fi writers, you can just write up a paragraph and invent anything, even a virtual reality that you can see and feel and touch. You could even invent immortality. It's just a word away. Very filled with references. Like the previous book overflowing with references I'd say there's one paragraph where he said it was like Yoda, it was like Highlander, it was like this it was like, and it's just it's just four references in a paragraph, and if you don't know any of those references. It was like four random movies you don't know. Fortunately, I knew most of the references there were a couple that slipped by me. I looked one of them up, and one of them I still can't find some. If you can explain to me why he's thinking crom as thanking God. I'd love to hear it. It's not cron the daily tasking software. crom I mean it's not the act or chrome well, or the the politician. No know I don't know who kromm is but it's a weird reference I couldn't find it on the internet of internet thinks that I'm Miss typing the word Chrome. When I write crop. So, non searchable.
Think kind of the best part of the book, where the needle drops that began to start during the john Hughes section and continued during the print section, took me a while but eventually I gave in and listen to about half of the john Hughes song and songs and half of the prince songs. Thanks to the magic of Siri or Alexa or whatever you'd like to talk to you can now order up a song, almost instantly. And that's what I did. So suggested reading style. Whenever he mentions a song. Grab your phone and tell your phone to play the song. Even if you haven't heard it or don't like it. Don't worry, he'll mention another song before that song is over, and you'll find yourself just grooving along to some john Hughes 80s music to some print music. And then there's still a couple of random needle drops that come up later in the book so it's still a fun game to keep playing. But not as active as during the HQs or print sections. How are they going to film this movie well they better get a good deal with john Hughes's john Hughes is a state, and they also better get a good deal with Prince's estate, and they're probably going to do to deal with terror tokens estate as well. So once again, it's a major copyright issue getting this movie to screen. I wouldn't be surprised if they swapped out prints for Steven Tyler and take you to Aerosmith land, just because he's still alive, it'd be a lot easier to film the print stuff did sound good on paper. I mean one minor note, it was tough to take a lot of the battles and things seriously. During the john Hughes world they did seem to know everything in advance and just what point to point during the prints world one of the other characters seem to know everything in advance and they just went point to point. And the JRR Tolkien world. They were missing the character who knew everything so they fumbled around until she showed up, and then they went point to point. So nothing was really at threat. Despite the fact that the book did kill one of the Samurai brothers, and the movie did not. That's of course easily solved you just write the kid into the new movie and say there's five of them instead of four, whatever it is, it's not difficult. Also would have been nice to have some back and forth with the other team that was questing to get a sword. We never really went over to their POV turns out we had a certain kind of narrator, I won't reveal that, but all in all, I read it in like two or three days so it must be a good book. When I find a book that's more fun to read, I can't put it down I have to keep reading it. I find other forms of entertainment on equal to the book. If I could turn on a movie screen and watch the rest of the book I would, but I have to do it on my imagination. And fortunately, I'm a quick reader, so I have no problems doing this and I absorbed really well. I enjoyed Ready Player One, or, sorry. I've been saying that the whole time. I enjoyed reading player two, I suggest you read it. It's a fun quick read. Pretty easy if you know all the references. If you don't know all the references I don't know that you'd enjoy it. So, basically you have to go watch every john Hughes film. I didn't know exactly all the press, Prince references, but listening to the songs, really made it real. And then the Tolkien references are super heavy references from the silmarillion that no one would get myself including included like the character in the book. I have not tackled the super brilliant. And I agree with him I don't even think it's a story. It's more like an encyclopedia or a textbook. So
I gave four out of five stars to Ready Player One that Ready Player Two. And that seems fair, mainly I didn't like the characters flippancy about discovering the VR rigs that you could touch and feel that seemed way too easy. It seems way too easy that one person or one company now has made perfect VR worlds. Perfect touch and feel VR. And I don't know if you want a spoiler for the end but he wake me makes one more crazy invention. A couple actually, and it gets to be a little Halt and Catch fire, where one minute. It makes sense and they're working on a PC clone. And then the next minute they're discovering anti virus then they invent America Online then they invent doom. And it's just a little much for one crew to invent everything in the world. So that was a little tough to take and yeah they, they released the touch and feel headsets, way too easily with no thought of the consequence. A little later they dip back and they get a little bit more into the consequences at least one of their member could see the obvious problems of these headset rigs, and the obvious potential of people to be locked in the oasis. A kind of gloss over a lot of that I thought that was pretty weak. So I thought the characters were a little young adult, they just kind of jump into bed with each other and they just jumped veto their relationships last forever and they never move on and that kind of obsessive. They also did a lot to destroy the character of James Halliday. It's interesting as a person coming off of the movies, not the books it's, I read the book.
I read the book long before I saw the movie and of course the movies mostly replaced the book in my mind. The movie has a bit more of a heartwarming ending, about turning off the Oasis every Thursday and spending more time in the real world and getting a girlfriend. And it also seems to kind of reform. The Garth like character of James Halliday at the end of the book that he had learned through his life that he made mistakes and that he didn't pay attention to this girl that he could have had and he didn't pay attention to the real world well. They pretty much have him. They make it sentimental. In the movie, by the end of the book you're, you're sentimental for the founder you're sentimental for these kids. It's just a beautiful sentimental like, you know, enjoy your time on earth don't play too many video games and waste your life kind of love fest, which is an ironic message for very video game movie. That would probably be a good video game in itself to work on it. And this book, eviscerates and destroys the character while he still does the have the reforming end, it's more of his life that we focus on and more of his obsession with what turns out later to be his friend's wife. They both matter at the same time they both liked her, but holiday is shown to be an anti social weirdo. While his friend. org, apparently is the love of her life and fits like a key and a lock.
It was too bad to see all the hate on James Halliday after the previous book lauded him with so much love giving him credit for inventing the contest. Also, all of the characters in the previous book, even all the characters in the world, in the previous book, were obsessed with James Halliday wanting basically to transform their mind into his mind, so that they would be able to solve these clues and when the easter egg. And the first book you describes watching volumes and volumes of 80s television like family ties and other shows that probably don't mean anything to them. But means something to them because they're trying to become holiday to get the easter egg that's all gone. In this second book nobody wants to become holiday. The character even talks many times about giving up his hero worship of the great holiday. So that's a change. And maybe not for the better. I had thought at some points that perhaps it was not even holidays quest, and could have been a quest made by another character. Also, it gets a little absurd that holidays designing quests inside of quests. on his deathbed, while he's learning all these lessons about life and thinking that the best use of these lessons is to program them into a game to make his heir, try to learn the same lessons.
I enjoyed Ready Player One I don't know if they'll be already player three. He doesn't quite, quite exactly write it out but he does kind of show the character at the end but he's, He's tired of the virtual world. After getting locked in it for 12 hours straight. They also say that he's not going to use the touch and feel headsets anymore, but there's really no reason, I mean it was just because he got, add some hacking problems and such but check out Ready Player to do available on Amazon. Amazon Kindle. You can download it wherever you want to download things. So check it out. Thanks so much for reading and listening. and until next time. Bye bye.
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