Overall, this story's main draws are the MC's unusual motivations and thought processes and the power fantasy aspect, while it's main weaknesses are the cookie-cutter tropey VRMMORPG system and setting, and the weak supporting cast. The prose is a little bit janky at times, but it might just be the translation, and it improves over time. The overall story progression is paced well, but on closer look, the individual 'arcs' have pacing issues on their own, manly due to the incessant juggling between the game, the real world, scenes with the antagonists, and reaction scenes by the developers. Since there is no external driving force in the story, it results in a slice-of-life narrative with occasional combat to shake things up. Because of this, all of the interactions involving him can be boiled down to two scenarios: it's either comedy, where people are baffled by his single-minded obsession with reading above all else, or it's power-fantasy face-slapping, where he curbstomps people by exploiting his cheaty power set. The narrative is driven by two factors: the MC's desire to read books, and him getting a secret class and becoming OP making other people interested in him. There is very little in terms of plot, if any. Thankfully, while the MC's personality is not terribly interesting, his thought-process and the way he deals with things is fairly unique, which makes his POV decently entertaining.

He barely socializes and has no love interest, meaning that while there are a number of supporting characters, they are not really fleshed out, and they have little connection to the MC, making everyone beside him mostly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. He gets into the game to read books, he becomes a mage to read more books, he starts level grinding to get access to more books, and that's about it. The protagonist is an emotionally distant, single-minded bookworm. There are eight types of magic, and players can only have access to three at a time (except for the MC, of course), and both spells and abilities have casting times and cooldowns (something that exists in real MMOs for balancing, which makes them all the more baffling, considering how hilariously unbalanced this game is). As for the game itself, it seems to be your cookie-cutter Korean grindfest, with no balancing at all, secret classes that give the lucky few a ridiculously huge advantage over their peers, hidden and undocumented game functions that exist mainly to make the OP 'high rankers' even more OP, and developers who don't seem to do anything besides being baffled by and fanboying over the MC's achievements.ДЄs for the actual game systems, it is a combination of stats (which can be raised by leveling up or by doing certain actions, such as training or reading), titles (which are gained for certain achievements, such as completing quests or killing a certain number of a type of monster), and classes (which are tiered, with the highest tiered ones being unique and absolutely OP). More or less your standard Korean VRMMORPG setting, where even though the game has only been running for a few months, everything in the real world seems to be revolving around it. Not only that, because of his compulsive reading actually giving him extra Wisdom stat points (the main stat of mages), he becomes horrendously OP once he actually begins leveling, which slowly draws the attention of NPCs and player guilds alike. He gets roped into trying out a new VRMMORPG, where he continues his obsession with books, which, by sheer coincidence, allows him to gain access to one of the absolutely broken secret classes in the game. Not stories, just the act of reading itself. The MC is an introvert who is obsessed with reading. (Because some people check it anyway and it ruins the story for those who hasn't read to that point yet.) < slow pace makes some people forget.ДЇor people who complain about the weird execution of VRMMO, well it's fiction. For example, the MC could make a seemingly s*upid decision but if you consider the original goal of the MC, then it actually makes sense. Since the pace is slow, it's harder to see the characterisation and people can easily get lost in a subplot and lose sight of the original motivations and goals of various characters.

The author likes to repeat things and describe scenes in Multiple POV. Reader is a good novel but it has a slow pace. Hi, I'm the current translator for Reader.

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