Ready Player one
by Ernest Cline
374 Pages
Published by Random
House, 2011
It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by
spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia
that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play
and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to
discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual
world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator
James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive
fortune -- and remarkable power -- to whoever can unlock them.
I loved this book. It kept me
entertained and I couldn’t put it down. It quickly became one of my favorite
books.
Ready Player One is an awesome
story of good guys beat bad in an epic game world called OASIS. If you’re a fan
of Sword Art Online either the novels or the Anime you will draw a couple of
parallels in the type of game. It was one of my first thoughts of the book, not
a bad thing though because the rest of the book is completely different.
The characters where great and we
even got a hint of romance in this geeky book, slightly unneeded but a nice little
add on as personally I’m a sucker for a bit of romance. This book comments on
tons of 80’s games, tv shows, movies, anime and all sorts of other pop culture,
so if you an 80’s junky read this book.
It touches on issues of gamers
often being hermits, how cheats never win in the end, friendship, love
triangles, murder and there's even a hint of servitude. The only complaint I
have about this book is it’s such a slow read compared to most, there is just a
constant flow of information that you need to take time to take it in. If
you’re looking for a quick read this is not the book for you, but if you’re
looking for something to take your time on and savor this is the book for you.
5 out of 5 Stars
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