Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Ready Player One     Ernest Cline     2014-07-27     2014-08-05     ***

2014-07-28: Pretty wordy and not going anywhere so far. Just finished the “history” lesson so maybe it’s finished with the set up and it’ll start going somewhere.

2014-08-02: Not bad, it’s keeping me reading.

2014-08-05: The “romance” was tedious and unneeded. Big eye roll over “skin jobs”.

2014-08-06: Yay! I get to read something else! It wasn’t bad but it was one of those books that just became tedious after a while. The “romance” could have been dropped completely and it would have improved the story (and shortened it). I didn’t so much “suspend” my disbelief as chuck it out the window. I just wasn’t buying a lot of the infiltration scenario. IOI didn’t firewall the slaves off from the rest of the intranet? One guy apparently had access to EVERY system? There was nothing in the network to watch for unusual large file moves and especially for the movement of sensitive data? Maybe it’s because I work on networks but that whole thing was way too easy. I had a major WTF when he said something to the effect of “if the codes don’t work then I just sold myself into a life of slavery for nothing”. My immediate thought was, you didn’t put in a plan to buy your way free in a few months? And about two pages later he reveals that he has in fact, just such a plan, which makes his prior statement seem really stupid. Also, the big fight took like 30 seconds and was a cake walk so, WTF? Anyway, it was a reasonably entertaining read for large parts of it and while I wanted it to be over I didn’t want it enough to just quit.

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