Review: Ready Player One

 Sometimes, all you need to do is sit back and relax, which I haven't done since the beginning of time. I need to lay back down and relax to my full extent because I swear to God, life sucks. But anyways, I'm back here again because I love you guys.

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 2.2/5, I HATED THE BOOK SO MUCH,  I DON'T KNOW IF I'M DISAPPOINTED OR GLAD THAT HOLLYWOOD CHANGED THE STORYLINE.

Possible Trigger Tags:

1. Murder

2. Misogyny

3. Suicidal thoughts

4. Forced Institutionalization

5. Addiction

6. Panic attacks

WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE  BOOK'S: 

1. Writing Quality: I really don't like the writing style, I don't kind of vibe with it. It seemed like the world was very 'I' based. If I could get a dollar for every time the word  'I' is used, I could most probably be able to afford the therapy and technical equipment that I so desperately need. I got 99 problems and like all of them would be solved with an intense amount of money. But yeah, I don't think I find the writing style particularly interesting, like a 'show not tell' done terribly wrong. More like 'tell not show' because there was too much written worldbuilding and nothing left to the imagination. And too much explanation, some of us Gen Z kids do get references, you know. Like we do get references, at least I do.

2. Character Development: So, thinking about it. 

Aech: I think she was the most favourite character throughout the whole of the story, like really. She's badass, she knows her shit and she won't let any man bring her down. She ain't accepting shit from anyone. And the fact that she's one of the best players of Halliday's games just increases my respect for her mate.

Artemis: Classic example of woman written by a man. Like as an AFAB, I can assure that her character is written in a really unrealistic way and seriously, men shouldn't be ALLOWED to write women. I have no hate for men, I love men really, but they really shouldn't be allowed to write women. Like I think if I could actually put a stereotype on how a woman is written by a man, I think Artemis would be one of the really god examples. Men shouldn't be allowed to write women, really.

Wade: Of course, how could we forget out fricking protagonist. Look, I don't have anything against Wade personally, in fact, I really liked him when Tye Sheridan played his role in the movie and he was really pulling off that teen nerd look I really dig. Okay, he always pulls off that nerd look in movies and I really like that about him. Somehow I do feel like that movie Wade was much better than book Wade because movie Wade seemed more of real to me. Movie Wade was actually suffering through difficulties and even though he knew his shit, he certainly didn't act like it. Book Wade is casually strutting on the runway acting like a fucking genius and like he just gets through shit without difficulty in the virtual world. Real world, yeah it sucks, but the fact that he's just soaring through the world that is modelled to function like the real world, yeah that doesn't sit right with me. I kind of don't like book Wade.

3. Couldn't put it down- Ness: 5/10, I feel like I fell into a slump after reading it. I did not kind of like it in parts. 

4. Plot: I really like the fact that the book contained like a survival to the fittest x may the best man win thingy, but that's it. Hollywood did a much better job to not make it feel like that it was a fucked up plot. Because that's what it really was. A fucked up plot. It felt like Cline took his own sweet time writing the first challenge, rushed through the second challenge and decided to completely wing it in the third challenge because I swear it felt like that. Man, after the movie, I feel like the book was such a let down.

OVERALL, A VERY MEH READ, the world would have been so much more beautiful without me reading it.