Wayne Smallman’s Reviews > Ready Player One > Status Update

Things have really sagged quite dramatically since the middle.

Oh dear, unrequited teenage love.

Read Player One is a very slow starter, that's for sure. Almost half way in before things start to heat up.

Although not a great novel, the story is compelling, which I suspect to be because it mirrors some of my own experiences.

While the dystopian themes are entirely as one would expect, I must give credit to Cline for making the effort to use the social problems resultant from the imagined energy crisis as a reason for why OASIS is so wildly a popular means of escapism. Many times, such effort isn't made, like in the movie Surrogates, for example.

While not exactly the kind of novel I imagine myself reading, it's an exploratory exercise, if nothing else.