Cite This Page To Go Ready Player One Ready Player One by Ernest
Cline  What’s Up With the Epigraph?   The novel has three
epigraphs, one in each of the three sections the book is divided
into. The epigraph from Level One and Level Three are fictional
quotes from Anorak's Almanac, Halliday's guide to his life in
the novel. These two quotes—"Being human totally sucks most of
the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life
bearable." and "Going outside is highly overrated."—both show
basically the same thing: life inside the OASIS is preferable to
the real world. Or at least, to the real world in 2045.  Level
Two has an actual quote, though, from Groucho Marx: "I'm not
crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a
decent meal." This quote seems to be saying that there are some
benefits to reality, despite how screwed up it might be. It's
just a little strange that it comes in the middle of the novel,
between the two quotes from Halliday that contradict it, when
Wade still sees absolutely no