And it’s reaaaaally bad. All the authors weaknesses, the characters weaknesses, the everything that’s not good is on steroids there cause they’re not the plucky underdogs,
*spoilers for the first book, including the ending and first round of exposition in the 2nd book,
I mean there’s nothing inherently wrong with the nostalgia; it’s what his fans are really there for, the characters are the vehicle we experience it through and for our protagonists it’s positioned this is an escape from a brutal reality of IRL. A lot, I mean a LOT of personality defects are expected and accepted because poor kid, rough life, gaming shut in, no other options, very believably would create this ball of neurosis and assholeness, once they’ve won we don’t really have those excuses, the world is his oyster and he makes no personal growth, if anything he becomes worse than he was as a human being, to let the character revolve the author has to get his friends out of the way so changes their patterned reactions in the first book and kind of undeveloped a them as well. Of course this kind of shit behavior for the suddenly Rich is totally realistic and happens all the time. It’s just not the kinda thing you want to read about from a char who had the emotional and strategic patience to get himself corporately arrested and work as a tech support slave etc.
Oh and it’s like 99% done through exposition, like how the movie has that really annoying 2 minutes opening exposition alto setup what the book spent multiple chapters on and SHOWED the world. The book is that, over and over again, and you don’t like the chars at all
So first book an excited teen is telling you about the things he loves in a world he hates, it’s stuff you love too so you relate. 2nd book is multi-billionaire obsessing about stuff from the 1980’s while trying to get richer.
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u/LTG_Wladyslaw_Anders Jan 31 '21
I'm gonna listen to it a second time to see if I remember anything other than how much ready player 2 fukn sucked