Book #3 of 2021: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One #2) I liked the first Ready Player One novel more than I know a lot of people did, for although I’m sympathetic to the criticisms of gatekeeping and mansplaining, the earnestness of its nerdy passions and fun VR action sequences were enough …
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Book #124 of 2016: Armada by Ernest Cline This follow-up to Ernest Cline’s first novel Ready Player One is (perhaps inevitably) a bit of a let-down, as it is nowhere near as inventive as that other story. Like RPO, Armada is packed full of Cline’s signature nerd culture references, but the plot they’re in service …
Book #50 of 2016: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline An exciting blockbuster of a novel that absolutely deserves the Steven Spielberg adaptation it’s now getting, Ready Player One tells the story of a group of video game nerds going up against an evil corporation to follow a series of obscure clues left in the …
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