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Ready Player Two

The highly anticipated sequel to READY PLAYER ONE

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Ready Player Two

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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Brought to you by Penguin.
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AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.

Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible.

With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest: a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.

And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants.

Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.

Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.
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'Delving back into the universe of OASIS is a nostalgic delight... fans will love returning to Cline's virtual world.'
Press Association

'Living up to the smash hit Ready Player One - turned into a film by Steven Spielberg - was never going to be easy, but Ernest Cline's wry and savage sequel shows how it should be done... A wild ride. Make this into a movie now.' The Times

'Ernest Cline takes Ready Player One, gives it a software update, adds some more nostalgia and delivers sheer joy in Ready Player Two.' Phil Williams, Times Radio

'A stunning, futuristic thrill-ride, full of nostalgia and wonderful set-pieces. Ready Player Two improves on everything from its predecessor.' Daily Express
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Praise for Ready Player One:

'Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.' USA Today

'An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.' CNN

'Delightful . . . the grown-up's Harry Potter.' HuffPost

'As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.' Entertainment Weekly

'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, [and] spectacularly successful.' Daily Mail

'A smart, funny thriller that both celebrates and critiques online culture.' San Francisco Chronicle

'A geek fantasia, '80s culture memoir and commentary on the future of online behavior all at once.' Austin American-Statesman

© Ernest Cline 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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I absolutely loved the first book and I was really looking forward to this but it's just full of mistakes and feels like it was rushed, it's bad compared to ready player one but I hope speilberg still makes the film, I mean its not a terrible book it's still worth reading but I am disappointed.
I wish there is someway he could rewrite it and take the time it deserves.

Gutted and disappointed

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I was disappointed by this book. The inventiveness of the ideas were incredible. However, it is emotionally stunted. Ernest Cline mechanically tells you how the characters feels, handing out the words “love” and “in love” at every juncture, but fails to emote anything in the reader. Some of the technology invented for the novel pose some interesting moral questions. Yet, these are only explored in half baked arguments or introspection from the narrator and never do you feel the anguish that must surely be present when deciding the right course of action. Sometimes I found the characters acting in remarkably flippant ways during moments of genuine peril. This flippant style in combination with Will Wheatons constant joviality and incessant upward inflection makes the reactions of the characters feel quite tactless or tasteless. Perhaps Ernest Cline’s created Halliday, the god of the Oasis who fails to understand human emotion adequately, as a reflection of himself, the god of the novel who fails to understand human emotion adequately.

Lacking

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I don't understand why this gets such a bad rep. I absolutely loved Ready Player One, and I came into this expecting nothing to be able to top the first, and I believe that allowed me to accept this more for what it was, a sequel. Very rarely is the 2nd of anything better than the 1st, and I think that's true for this too, but it's still a very good book, and a clever extension of the story, and what it could become after the end of RPO.
I'll probably listen again at some point as both of these books are stuffed with information and descriptive storytelling and image portrayal.
Don't follow the negative reviews, give it a listen and you'll be surprised!

Very good but not the first.....

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Every character in this book feels like basically the same person. Also, his female characters are incredibly unbelievable. Samantha's basically just there as a Dream Girl for the protagonist to want and get, and to comfort until she can "calm down".

In the first book this characterisation was apparent. By this second one, it's a lot worse.

The story is fine if you're not bothered by the above, like young adult fiction (even though all the references are for people 30+), and are looking for something that isn't going to be very difficult to read.

The author's unable to write more than 1 characte

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If you approach this with a love of the references then maybe you will have a different experience. I wasn't that familiar with them so didn't connect with book 2 like I did with 1.
I think we're supposed to fall out of love with Wade a bit, so that's okay.
The only unforgiveable thing was Wil Wheaton's utterly appalling attempt at an English accent. Good grief Wil, just stop!

Disappointing

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