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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline

Start date: November 12, 2012

Finish date: November 30, 2012

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Feb 25, 2017 Marcy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-or-reread-2017

I'd been seeing this book well-reviewed and liked for a while, but based on its description (dystopian-type future setting, videogames and virtual reality galore) hadn't picked it up - it just didn't seem like something I'd be super into.

Fortunately, I participated in a book swap activity where a friend-of-a-friend brought one of her favorite books, "Ready Player One," and it ended up in my hands. And so I read it. And now I'm ashamed I didn't give it a chance sooner.

Despite that I'm not heavily ...more

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Jan 29, 2015 Morgan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: gamer-appeal, geek-appeal, five-star-reads, audiobook, mysteries-and-thrillers, fiction, post-apocalyptic-dystopic-utopia, re-reads, sci-fi

Re-reading this one via audiobook, because I loved Wil Wheaton's narration of Lock In.

I really enjoyed this the first time around, so I have high hopes to enjoy it again.

------------------after finishing--------------------

So glad that I went back and listened as well. It was just as enjoyable for me the second time around. Wil Wheaton did a wonderful job as narrator.

Video games + 80s + being able to LIVE IN A VIDEO GAME (I want a space fortress of my very own on my own planet thankyouverymuc ...more

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Mar 09, 2018 Beth rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2018

Loved it. Want to read it again. Can’t wait to see the movie. Was it perfect? No, there was one sticking point that I had to ignore. But by doing that I thoroughly enjoyed!

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