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***RE-READ ON 12/28/16***
Listened to the audiobook with my husband during a road trip. I loved it just as much the second time around (his first time). I can't recommend this book enough.
My Rating: 5 stars
His Rating: 4 stars
***Original Review 04/20/15***
I loved everything about this book! I loved Wade and all his awesomeness. I loved all the subtle humor. I loved all the secondary characters. I loved that it was a fast paced and easy read without huge unnecessary and complicated plot twists. I ...more
Listened to the audiobook with my husband during a road trip. I loved it just as much the second time around (his first time). I can't recommend this book enough.
My Rating: 5 stars
His Rating: 4 stars
***Original Review 04/20/15***
I loved everything about this book! I loved Wade and all his awesomeness. I loved all the subtle humor. I loved all the secondary characters. I loved that it was a fast paced and easy read without huge unnecessary and complicated plot twists. I ...more
OK, everyone I know or am in contact with on Goodreads seems to have loved this book. 5-star and 4-star reviews abound, as do exclamations of "awesome!" and "so much fun!" Heck, Wil Wheaton does the audio version, and if that isn't the desired geek-cred to end all geek-creds... But I segue.
Ernest Cline is desperate for nerd acceptance. Clearly I don't know if that's actually the case, but in a vacuum, that's what I get out of this book. And it hurts the story, which is a damned good one. That's ...more
Ernest Cline is desperate for nerd acceptance. Clearly I don't know if that's actually the case, but in a vacuum, that's what I get out of this book. And it hurts the story, which is a damned good one. That's ...more
April 2013: third time. still charmed
This book appeals to the geeky part of me, the nostalgic part of me, and the part of me that loves a good comedic quest story.
re-read May 2012: still amazing!!
Orig read: Nov 2011 Just fantastic.
Get the audiobook.
This book appeals to the geeky part of me, the nostalgic part of me, and the part of me that loves a good comedic quest story.
re-read May 2012: still amazing!!
Orig read: Nov 2011 Just fantastic.
Get the audiobook.
Listened to audio as re-read. Even better the second time around!
Extremely entertaining trip through computer and video game history as well as some classic science fiction. The plot was fairly mundane, but the picture of a future reality where everyone spent a great deal of time logged into a Second Life like virtual reality was fun and sufficiently detailed to carry the novel. The reader for the unabridged audiobook did an excellent job narrating the story, handling the detailed descriptions of video game play, and recitations of the scoreboard in ways that
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Whoa, I can add more than one edition. I've finally figured out how to do this, without help or anything. Yay me! This is here because I want credit for reading this book again (for the fourth time) and my whole reading goal is always messed up because I do silly things like read the same book four times.
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Really fun; not an amazing book but entertaining and different from what I'd been reading lately. Very plot-driven & could read it fast.
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This book is full of 80 pop culture references, gamer lingo and friendship. How could it possible go wrong?
Something between otherland and hunger games. Short quick read.
Yep, I read it again. Fourth time? Fifth?
Nov 23, 2013
Jen Ifer's Inklings
marked it as to-read
