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I can't believe it took me so long to read this, being a person who once used a Commodore 64 and an Atari. Granted, I was more of a literature nerd than a video game one and let st of the Japanese references went over my head. Still.
I read this for a book club, which I attended having read 70% of the book. And with my four month old. But it was a wonderful, funny new group, mostly full of people who hadn't really liked the book. They disliked the lack of character development and that the chara ...more
I read this for a book club, which I attended having read 70% of the book. And with my four month old. But it was a wonderful, funny new group, mostly full of people who hadn't really liked the book. They disliked the lack of character development and that the chara ...more
I enjoyed this book. I am a child of the 80's so I loved all the 80's references. I played some of those games like Dungeons and Dragons and MUDS. My first computer was a Comodore 64. I really got into the story. For as technically advanced as that world was, it was still a dystopia. The people spent more time living in the OASIS world than the real world. The OASIS world did sound cool. I tried to figure out the clues along with the the characters to find the "Easter" egg. I was surpried to fin
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I just finished rereading this book (I read it first 4 years ago) in preparation for the movie. I'm excited for the film even though it looks like there were a ton of changes made. At first I was annoyed by them, but after having just reread it, I do see why certain things were altered. This book was basically asking to be made into a movie, even the author admits that. However, certain parts would be quite slow depicted in the movie (such as the reenactment of entire films) & certain aspects we
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Aug 17, 2014
Laurie
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it was amazing
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I loved listening to this book. At it's heart, it's a pretty basic boy-meets-girl story, complete with the obstacle of a quest (save the world, of course) to be completed before they can be united. But it has so much fun in the telling of that story - in particular, I enjoy that the girl is his real competition for the quest - that it doesn't really matter. And I had so much fun listening that I didn't really realise it until it was over.
If you want to be blown away by clever turns of phrase or ...more
If you want to be blown away by clever turns of phrase or ...more
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while it's not the best book ever written, it's probably one of the most fun I've ever listened to. wil Weaton is a great narrator and Cline captures nostalgia and my inner geek is totally obsessed right now. great fun!!
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First reading: February 2013. Second reading: April 2014.
Is it great literature? No, but not every book has to be. It is an incredibly enjoyable read.
Is it great literature? No, but not every book has to be. It is an incredibly enjoyable read.
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