Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) in What's the Name of That Book???

Dec 18, 2012 Lisa Vegan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, orphaned-and-quasi-orphaned-kids, readbooks-male-author-or-illust, zz-5star, goodreads-author, young-adult, novel, speculative-fiction, groups-buddies, z2016

I’m very grateful to my favorite Goodreads group because their informal buddy read got me to finally get this book off my to read shelf and read it. I can’t believe that I waited as long as I did! Brilliant book, and great fun!

I consider this to be a young adult book, though I know some consider it to be adult fiction. Interestingly, my library has some of its copies shelved as ya and some of its copies shelved as adult fiction. In my mind the nature of the relationships and the obligatory ya en I’m very grateful to my favorite Goodreads group because their informal buddy read got me to finally get this book off my to read shelf and read it. I can’t believe that I waited as long as I did! Brilliant book, and great fun!

I consider this to be a young adult book, though I know some consider it to be adult fiction. Interestingly, my library has some of its copies shelved as ya and some of its copies shelved as adult fiction. In my mind the nature of the relationships and the obligatory ya ending scene made it feel like ya. However, I think that adults who were ages 7-22 during the 1980s will have particular interest in this story, along with those of us adults who like ya, so it’s a book for 11 or 12 and all the way up, in my opinion. I was already well into adulthood in the 1980s and never was a video game person, but that didn’t keep me from thoroughly enjoying the story and getting many of the 80s references. I do love the movie War Games and really enjoyed its appearance in the story.

Hooked from the start! The author made this book as addictive for his readers as OASIS is for his characters.

I think that the world building was wonderfully done, and I appreciate how a lot of pitfalls are avoided by placing so much of the action in what was the actual past.

I cared deeply for the main characters, particularly the main character. Everything felt so real that during the action I was worried for the characters, not just their avatars.

The story is highly entertaining but it wasn’t good for my blood pressure; there is a lot of suspense.

Throughout, I kept making guesses, and although I was almost always wrong, it was fun to “play along” with the story. I really enjoyed some of the twists, particularly one big one I never saw coming.

½ star off for a few things that didn’t ring entirely true for me: (view spoiler)

Highly recommended to those who like character driven speculative fiction, people who were young in the 80s and all ya and adult readers who enjoy speculative fiction, and anyone who appreciates unique coming of age stories. ...more

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Oct 14, 2017 Philip rated it really liked it

Shelves: dystopian

Time will tell whether or not I'll have to put this on my "classics" shelf. I didn't realize how deeply embedded into the culture this book was until I saw how many goodreads friends had read it. Hint: A lot.

Of course, the top couple reviews are negative. I've noticed this happens a lot with loved pop-culture books. There are so many glowing reviews that the people who hate the book rally around those few well-written one or two star reviews. And everybody loves a good negative review.

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May 01, 2018 Philip rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopian, jordabecker-book-club, jordabecker-fuzzy

Julian Pavia is on fire. This is the second book in a row of his that we’ve read for book club. I’d love to find a list of books he’s been the editor for… google doesn’t seem to be helping.

After finishing Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, we moved onto Ready Player One. Pavia is mentioned in the acknowledgements sections of both. (And in Dark Matter, there’s a science prize ostensibly named after him.)

This is my second time reading Ready Player One in about 6 months. I wasn’t planning on reading it a ...more

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Apr 08, 2013 Liz rated it it was amazing

Shelves: adult-fiction, 5-star

Check out my review of this book here:
http://www.consumedbybooks.com/2017/0... ...more

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Jan 22, 2014 junia rated it really liked it

It was fun! I was intending to read this book for a while and it was the perfect lazy-holiday read. I do admit, I did skim bits because the descriptions were super lengthy, and the first-person perspective is usually a hit/miss for me, but overall, this was an enjoyable read.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of 80's media (although being born in '87, I didn't really explore it until high school film class), and this book was definitely a loving (if not semi-manic) tribute to the 80s and video games.

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Jun 09, 2015 Dawn rated it really liked it

Shelves: random-fiction, 2015

This 80s tribute book is rad.

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Oct 11, 2012 Malina rated it liked it

Shelves: sci-fi

Author seems to have a pretty negative view of where humans are taking our world right now and also chooses to emphasize atheism at the beginning. Book will be best enjoyed by those who lived as teenagers or young adults in the eighties because it is full of references that are not fully explained. It is eighties pop culture nostalgia with a story. The story is pretty good and has some interesting things to discuss like virtual life vs real life, evil corporations, what would happen in the world ...more

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Sep 19, 2016 Kathleen rated it really liked it

A thoroughly enjoyable book for those that are interested in computers, the 80's and a glimpse of what the future could be like. Very likable characters, convincing villains, and a good plot of hunting for hidden treasure. ...more

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