Ready Player One
May. 26th, 2012 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI listened to the audio version of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline this week - read by Wil Wheaton, which is always fun.
I had an interesting, conflicted reaction to it. Objectively, I thought it was very adolescent, incredibly unsubtle wish fulfilment, and very contrived (piling four minorities onto one character to satisfy the diversity aspect - really??). However, having said that, I spent the entire week listening to the book in every free moment (instead of actually reading on the train, for example), so I obviously enjoyed the story and really wanted to find out what happened next.
It was over the top, but fun.
I had an interesting, conflicted reaction to it. Objectively, I thought it was very adolescent, incredibly unsubtle wish fulfilment, and very contrived (piling four minorities onto one character to satisfy the diversity aspect - really??). However, having said that, I spent the entire week listening to the book in every free moment (instead of actually reading on the train, for example), so I obviously enjoyed the story and really wanted to find out what happened next.
It was over the top, but fun.
