READY PLAYER TWO is a Mess | Explained

Ernest really said “I only value your gender if it can satisfy my sexual desires” huh

I honestly don't want to hear anybody complain about how stupid twilight is considering that this exists.

I haven't read the book but if there are so many paralelles between wade and halliday it seems like a huge missed opportunity to drive home that sentence about not knowing a person despite knowing everything about them by just making wade the villain, or having him go through a redemption arc where he realizes how similar he is to a guy who he thinks is wrong and tries to be better.

Just finished the second book and… Damn, I’m upset. I really LOVED the first book and the movie is one of my favorite movies(not a perfect movie though). After reading, I liked elements of the story, such as the John Hughes world and how it functions. However, the world of the book itself was just so closed and non-expansive. Like it’s cool to have Prince and LOTR world, but it just kept going on and on with those type of “wow look how deep-cut we can get with these particular properties”. It was just monotonous. And the ending was like, A.I is cool and living forever in a computer in space is a breeze….. No… The whole story that the characters had in this book AND the last one was about how immersing yourself too much into the Oasis is not good, but hey, throw that out the window I guess. Don’t get me started on Wade. The last book had him doing very shitty things, but at the end of one, it was said to the reader that he was going to grow after all the shit he did and all the shit that happened to him. But no, they throw it all out of the window, and he’s still weird. Dude, you’re in your like in your 30s, grow the hell up. Overall, I’m very worried for the RP2 movie if it happens. It’s been reported that this book was made with the sequel to the movie in mind to make it less separated as an adaptation, but that just makes me scared. The movie’s ending with Halliday seemed heartfelt and pretty charming actually with him giving the egg to Wade. However, with this book being about Halliday being the villain, it seriously undercuts everything that the ending had. All the weight, and the messages are just poof gone. What made me love the first book and the movie was the ending, it wrapped everything up perfectly. “Reality, is real”. It’s great Biggest rant I’ve ever had on YT, thank you

This book's first mistake is that the protagonist is Wade. It's "Ready Player Two" which should be a different character.

"I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission" - actual sentence from Ready Player Two

the thing I hate the most about ready player one is its use of the iron giant as a war weapon

Honestly, as I was reading the book I didn't really notice some of the monstrous red flags you pointed out. So now after watching this I realized, "Wow, this book was pretty insane"

Ok, can we talk about how him going around dunking on the haters is just blatant wish fulfillment of the author? Just, lol.

When I said I like books with morally ambiguous protagonists this is not what I meant

Could this be the same thing the Forrest Gump author did, where Hollywood robbed all his payday so he wrote such a shitty sequel, sold them the rights and made sure it was something so bad they could never make it a film?

This book really does show that any story can be any genre if you tell it from the right character. If anyone else but Wade was telling this story, it’s a horror book.

A man you once considered a friend hijacks your conscience in a virtual reality so you stay with him forever until you love him- that's sounds like a prompt for a horror story

In this stunning sequel, the author outdoes his performance in the first book by actually having NEGATIVE self awareness.

The ending with the digital copies in a spaceship is like Soma. That also dealt with similar concepts.

The last part literally sounds like a re-write of the movie "Solaris" where a people were being created out of the memories of others with the quesiton of "if they're conscience, are they those people or are they their own person?".

"If you want a spoiler free review..." No, please, I need spoilers, because I bought it, and can't get past chapter 2.

"so Halliday left warnings about the potential risks and dangers, but like, he's not there to personally stop me, so that obviously means it's not really dangerous" - Wade, probably

I’m so happy I found this channel and this video! I thought I was the only one incapable of finishing this book while loving the original

Thank you, I found both this and the first book.. exhausting. The non-stop 80's references, though fun, aren't enough to stitch a boring story together.