Was für ein Schwachsinn! "Ready Player One" habe ich geliebt, auch den Film fand ich gut gemacht. Aber die Fortsetzung ist die reinste Katastrophe. Sinnlose Aneinanderreihungen von Retro-Film-, Fernseh-, Buchtitel, Sängern und Bands. Langweilig zu lesen. Wirklich schade. Ich habe mir mehr erwartet.

When I read Ready Player One, I've struggled with longing for the OASIS for MONTHS. I've wanted to experience the technology of that age and day, wanted to travel through one world in which all the other games existet, all with one single avatar. My mind was completely compelled and I yearned for a quest like the Easter Egg's. So of course I bought Ready Player Two, expecting the same emotional state as in volume one. Sadly, the second book didn't deliver. At all. During the first quarter of the book I've felt lost and a bit annoyed about Wade's weird change in character. ## SPOILERS FROM THIS POSITION ONWARD ## Wade is a freaking geek gunter, sniffing up each detail he can find about his idol and the OASIS. That he simply stopped doing that after becoming a billionaire seems highly unlikely to me, so the first quarter of the book was just unrealistic to me. I can somewhat understand that Samantha split up with him over the ONI, however. The whole of the book seemed somehow detached from emotional depth, except when Ogden dies. It's the only time I actually shed a tear. All other events just slipped by, being nothing more than a "meh". And I think that's pretty sad. All in all it was an okayish read. Just not what I expected, and therefore didn't fulfill my expectations.

Leider war die Fortsetzung von #ReadyPlayerOne für mich eine Enttäuschung. Den ersten Teil habe ich als #Buch und #Film sehr gemocht. Es ist halt wie so oft, der 2te Band war so nie vorgesehen und wäre für mich auch absolut nicht notwendig gewesen. Er hat bestimmt seine Fans aber ich behalte lieber Band 1 in meinem Herzen und beende damit auch die Reihe.

I forced myself through it but wanted to dnf it up until the ending, it felt like nothing was happening and then a bunch of things happened all at once. The characters felt flat, there was no real development and the ending felt too forced and too metaphorically perfect. I was happy with Ready Player One being a great standalone novel. Maybe I'll pretend it still is. I thought I couldn't be more disappointed by a book after reading A Court of Frost and Starlight at the beginning of the year. I guess I was wrong. But isn't it ironic that the first and last review of my year were severe disappointments?