Ready Player One

How did a 18 year old watch most of the series of the eigthies and play videogames in just 5 years? And some of them multiple times, I cannot understand.
The writing was flat and repetitive. I predicted the references of the key and gate quests, way before our main character did. After the first half I couldn't care less what would happen to our main character, who was either absolutely stupid or in the zone and a true gamer. No in between.

What also unnerved me to no end, was that there were no real dead ends. Almost everything had a point and the characters only didn't guessed it. Also the repetitions got on my nerve. Perhaps it was the fault of the translation but reading the same lines every few pages is exhausting and not helpful.

I thought that the ending could have helped this book, but I would have liked a different, not so open ending or an epilogue.

So one and a half quite generous stars for the references and the nostalgia factor.