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Ready Player Two

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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, 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.

©2020 Ernest Cline (P)2020 Penguin Audio Adventure Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction LitRPG Adaptation

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enjoyed the reading and the story but one or two times it got a bit political and "pc". i want to enjoy a story not have a characters colour or sexuality highlighted for the snowflake brigade.

decent enough

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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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