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I can't believe it took me so long to read this, being a person who once used a Commodore 64 and an Atari. Granted, I was more of a literature nerd than a video game one and let st of the Japanese references went over my head. Still.
I read this for a book club, which I attended having read 70% of the book. And with my four month old. But it was a wonderful, funny new group, mostly full of people who hadn't really liked the book. They disliked the lack of character development and that the chara ...more
I read this for a book club, which I attended having read 70% of the book. And with my four month old. But it was a wonderful, funny new group, mostly full of people who hadn't really liked the book. They disliked the lack of character development and that the chara ...more
As a child of the 80s and early NES adopter, this book was catnip for me. The love story was pretty weak, but thankful it wasn't a bigger focus in the book. I kept turning the pages expecting a big offense to my sensibilities but none arrived. Some of my fellow book club members couldn't stomach a white male protagonist with poor social skills. The movie softened the plot, which was not unexpected for a PG-13 Spielberg adaptation. I would actually recommend the movie over the book if you rather
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This was my "a book a friend recommended for the Popsugar 2015 reading challenge and now I am recommending it to you. READ THIS BOOK. I started and finished it on Friday during my hospital wait and then read it again over the weekend to absorb all the awesome.
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Ready Player One is a book about a future Earth in which most of the population has there social interactions in a cyber world called OASIS. When the creator of the world dies and leaves an Easter Egg in the world that will lead to his vast fortune everyone joins the hung to find it. The major antagonist is an organization called IOI that wants to corrupt the spirit of the hunt and use the fortune for their own gain.
Parzival, the main character of the story tells his story about how he searched ...more
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I loved this book. As a nerdy kid that grew up in the 1980s, its references to RPGs, video games, books, music, and movies are awesome. The descriptions of everything from the second cover art for the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide to coin operated video games bring back vivid memories. I didn't play every game or watch every movie mentioned in the book, but they were such a part of the zeitgeist of the time's geek culture that they all seem very familiar. I wholly relate to the author's love of th
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A brilliant and fun read. A must for fans of 1980s pop culture and old-school video games. I loved every sentence.
awesome the 4th time just as it was the first 3
This was loads of fun, a cracking adventure story with a serious point. I'm more of a 90s kid so many of the references were not of my era, but anyone with the slightest hint of a geek bone in their body will get a real thrill from this.
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It was definitely an enjoyable book, but I was expecting more given all the hype. Also I am hardcore burnt out on80s pop culture now...
May 06, 2013
Mike
marked it as to-read
Apr 24, 2014
Jens Reineking
marked it as to-read
Oct 20, 2018
Erynn Wilson
marked it as to-read
