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I loved this book not only for its ideas of what a future society might be like, but also, of course for the heavy 1980's NOSTALGIA FACTOR! As a kid of the 80s I ate this book up like candy- everything from books, to film to Ataru games are referenced with reverence in this book. Basically, in a a fuure America, everyone essentially LIVES online, even attending virtual reality school. The world itself is a cesspool of crime and overpopulation and pollution. The man who has built the Net up to wh
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I loved this book not only for its ideas of what a future society might be like, but also, of course for the heavy 1980's NOSTALGIA FACTOR! As a kid of the 80s I ate this book up like candy- everything from books, to film to Atari games are referenced with reverence in this book. Basically, in a a future America, everyone essentially LIVES online (IN the OASIS universe), even attending virtual reality school. The world itself is a cesspool of crime and overpopulation and pollution. The man who h
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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 really liked this one mostly because I loved the 80's, and I'm a total gamer. Fun book!
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Title: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (11/4/18)
Why I picked this book up: Recommended by a few people, it was in my Audible library.
What I thought about it: I definitely liked it better than Ascend Online or the movie that made from it. As an audio book, the list of player and scores updated throughout became repetitive.
Overall impression: 4/5.00
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Why I picked this book up: Recommended by a few people, it was in my Audible library.
What I thought about it: I definitely liked it better than Ascend Online or the movie that made from it. As an audio book, the list of player and scores updated throughout became repetitive.
Overall impression: 4/5.00
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i guess this is YA. It's good fun. I even managed to enjoy it despite never having played a computer game. It's a bit weird for an older person like me because it's a world where Second Life has taken over the net rather than dying quietly in a corner, like it has in real life. I really hated through the eighties living through them, so i wasn't keen on the worship of eighties 'culture' - encourage kids to try out good stuff not rubbish!
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Slow going at the start of the book, but about a quarter of the way through the book I didn't want to put it down. It's a little scary to think about how close our society might be to this scenario. I thoroughly enjoyed the 80s references; as a child of that decade it brought back memories and tested my recollection of that time. Well developed characters and an engaging storyline.
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Loved the idea of the Oasis - life lived almost completely in virtual reality - and the villains were satisfactorily villainous (though rather unbelievably stupid at the end).
Jun 29, 2013
Anastasia
marked it as interrupted
Apr 08, 2013
mr. x
marked it as fiction
Aug 29, 2015
Meghan
marked it as to-read
May 10, 2018
Phoebe
rated it
really liked it
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