Travis

My wife choose this book for her book club, I begrudgingly read it because it seemed like a quick read. The more I read the more hooked I got. The movie makes this story out to be a relationship between a father and daughter but I felt that the central themes were more about overcoming adversity and seeing the good in the most bleakest situations.

Ready Player One is a fun and engaging read, I breezed through it with little effort and really enjoyed it. That said, there were times I felt that Cline could have used a bit of a more heavy handed editor. Perhaps this is because I don't share all of the author's passions to the same degree which, although not prerequisite to enjoyment, does probably heighten the enjoyment.

Full disclosure I didn't finish this book, I read Benji's section the end and maybe a dozen pages of Quintin's.

Two stars for interesting writing style and concept but ultimately I just don't want to spend the hours required to read the inner thoughts of a suicidal Harvard student and his older brother who is a complete jerk.

Uhhh. I'm not sure how this got on my list or what I thought it would be. I just finished “There's No Such Thing About Bad Weather”, which is insights into the difference between Swedish and North American parenting. I thought this book would be something more like that, an examination of happiness told through the lens of the author's experience. Maybe that's what it was supposed to be but, man, after listening to this on 1.5 speed for 45 min I couldn't take it anymore. This book seems like it was a pamphlet that was expanded to a book. I can't handle the overly flowery descriptions of what your kids are doing every minute of the day which serve as padding.

After 45 minutes I'm not even sure what this book is supposed to be about, something about a “happiness project” but beyond that from what I can tell just reading the extremely long title of this book gives you enough information to infer the rest of the book. The other thing that put me off was the comparison early on made to Eat Pray Love, if that's what your striving for then I'm already out.