Ready Player Two
A Novel
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3.9 • 199 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal
AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.
Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible.
With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.
And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants.
Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Get ready to dive back into the ’80s-obsessed world of one of the most awesomely fun science-fiction adventures in recent memory! Ernest Cline’s exciting sequel picks up right where the phenomenally popular Ready Player One left off, with misfit teen Wade and his equally socially awkward friends gaining full control of the vast virtual-reality empire known as OASIS. But before they can celebrate their big win, the crew discovers that the world’s recently deceased creator hid the biggest Easter egg ever for them to find—a revolutionary new technology that could change OASIS, and maybe even reality itself, forever. We were so happy to plug back into Cline’s neon-colored, pop-culture-saturated world. Like all the best sequels, Ready Player Two is a next-level adventure that raises the stakes for our beloved heroes, and we loved watching Wade and company rise to the task. Best of all, Cline makes it all feel so real, you might find yourself reaching for a digital sword of your own when things get tense.
Customer Reviews
Ernie Cline goes more woke
I loved Ready Player One. It’s one of my all time favourite books.
This book isn’t bad, but it’s not great. It feels like a bit of a cash grab.
That’s not the biggest problem with this book, though.
The gratuitous “woke” writing gets so cringe after a while. The conversations between characters that suddenly turn into awkward wokeisms start taking away from the story itself, and actually start coming off as a lecture. It removes from the story and the experience.
Ernie Cline did amazing with the first one. The story was immersive and fun. The second one has so many pointless anecdotes that it has no flow. Just as you really start getting into it, all of a sudden a character is going off about something completely unrelated and you snap out of it.
Could have been better, still an amazing book
listen, compared to ready player one. This book is nothing close.
It had a great storyline and had some great moments but I felt like it skipped a lot of things. It just happend that Aech loves Prince even though nothing was said about in the previous book? Or that Art3mis loved tolkien when again nothing was said before? I feel like a lot of these moments were forced and that the author used the characters to have these all of a sudden amazing powers to move along the book yk
The Worst
Absolutely terrible, unnecessary sequel. Do not read if you liked the first book.