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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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I really liked this book and the production of it. So much so that once I was fully engaged I would turn it on and listen as I got ready for work. I'd listen until I had to turn it off then play it as soon as I could. I'd fall asleep every night lying in bed listening to the book.
Ready Player One is the story of Wade Watts, an 18 year old senior who lives in a sort of dystopian america. It's 2044. The world ran out of fossil fuels and the unemployed and homeless roam, starving. The only happine ...more
Ready Player One is the story of Wade Watts, an 18 year old senior who lives in a sort of dystopian america. It's 2044. The world ran out of fossil fuels and the unemployed and homeless roam, starving. The only happine ...more
Audio read by Wil Wheaton
I've been sucked in.. *massively enjoying this*
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I've been sucked in.. *massively enjoying this*
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Loved it. I don't know even what shelf/shelves to put it on, because it felt like a dystopia, but OASIS sure didn't seem dystopian...although the outside world was. It reminded me of Cory Doctorow's For The Win and some of his other stuff (and there was a little h/t to CD in the book!!). All in all, highly recommended!
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