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While wil Wheaton is a terrific narrator, the writing is not for me
Apr 07, 2018
Lisa
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it was amazing
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young-adult,
dystopian
Willy Wonka meets Mark Zuckerberg in a future that (scarily) I don't think is that far off from our present reality. I have to say it was a bit interesting reading this while watching Zuckerberg speak before Congress. I loved every nearly every word and was overwhelmed with the creativity of the story as a whole. I am a child of the 80s and while I'm not a "gamer", I am a self-proclaimed geek (I have a cat named Marty McFly, my favorite book of all time is The Hobbit and an original Atari still
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Read March 2015 & February 2021
4 1/2 stars
What a fun read! I totally recommend it to all my geeky friends, especially those who also grew up in the 80s.
4 1/2 stars
What a fun read! I totally recommend it to all my geeky friends, especially those who also grew up in the 80s.
I think I hit peak geek on this one - listening to the audio book while driving my Tesla through Silicon Valley after planning a tech conference - so of course I had to tweet about it. In other words, I'm a strong target for this book: geek, child of the 80s, not really a gamer, but I have lots of friends who are.
The book will clearly make a great movie. The world building is strong, there's a great us vs them conflict, and there's enough fan service with the 80s detail that it will have great v ...more
The book will clearly make a great movie. The world building is strong, there's a great us vs them conflict, and there's enough fan service with the 80s detail that it will have great v ...more
This was a really fun read. I grew up when computers were just beginning to appear on the scene. Reading this book is like a trip back in time. Our high school was one of the first with a computer room where kids could learn and code on long strips of paper tape with a device that punched little holes in the tape when you typed out the instructions. I wasn’t a video game fanatic but I recognized and remembered lots of details that this book explores. I am wondering how the movie will translate t
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I read this for book group (books-to-movies discussion group since this will be a move in 2018). It's a cute story, a fun read, and even thought provoking at times. It's definitely most appreciated by folks who came of age in the 1980's, especially gamers (video, D&D, etc.). While the references weren't lost on me (and sometimes even fun), it got to be a bit much. I would be hard pressed to name a person to whom I'd recommend this book, mostly because of the limited audience to whom it's primari
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This is one of the rare cases where I saw the movie before I saw the book. The book is so much better!!
