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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline

Start date: September 19, 2011

Finish date: November 1, 2011

Discussion: 2011 Reads

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Aug 12, 2011 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it really liked it

Shelves: post-apocalypse-and-dystopia, read2011, sci-fi-fantasy

This book is such great fun that I found myself making up reasons to listen to the audio book (I recommend 2x speed, as much as I love Wil Wheaton's narration, it is lethargic, but perfect sped up).

If you are a pop culture junkie, or a gamer, or a virtual world inhabitant, this is the book for you. The world has fallen apart and Wade is living in a stack of mobile homes, and most of his waking hours are spent in the Oasis, a virtual reality space where he also goes to school. The creator of The ...more

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Sep 14, 2011 Tom Merritt rated it it was amazing

The story is good. It's compelling and suspenseful and fun. Sure it may have some small holes, but nothing you'll fall through and hurt yourself. But the world is magnificent. Especially to anyone who ever played video games, watched TV and movies or listened to music in and around the 1980s. This book is glorious. ...more

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Aug 04, 2011 Eric rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science-fiction, cyber-punk, book-club

A perfect blend of Snow Crash, .hack//Infection, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Matrix. I loved everything about this novel. My only early complaint was the footnotes, but they disappeared after the prologue.

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Dec 06, 2011 Angie rated it it was amazing

Great book!! I loved reading about all the geeky stuff I enjoy everyday. And I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the author is also the writer of the movie Fanboys! Which I also enjoyed. This book makes me want to go watch the movies and play the video games that were mentioned. And I would also love to be able to live in the Oasis world. Yea OK cheesy right? But I love D&D and to actually be able to play it in 3D would be so cool!!!

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Jun 14, 2012 E.C. rated it really liked it

This is quite possibly the geekiest book I have ever read. There will likely be a more detailed review soon.

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Dec 26, 2011 Nat rated it really liked it

Shelves: digital-owned

This book engaged me: I essentially picked it up in the morning and put it down at 5am when I finished it. The book takes you on a roller coaster rags to riches story that touches on some of the ethics behind the anonymity that exists on the internet.

There are two things that really bug me about this book though. The first is that the book is incredibly predictable. After the first chapter, you can get a pretty good sense of how the book will end and what will happen to all of the characters. T ...more

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Oct 31, 2011 Micah Erskine rated it really liked it

As a contemporary of the author and the fictional James Halliday (1972 for the win, am I right?) this book is a gamer nostalgia trip par excellence. This is not a 5 star book for everyone but for the right demographic it is a near-perfect gem. Were you born in the early '70s? Did you roll the polyhedral dice? Play early video games at home and in arcades? Re-watch John Hughes movies? Read comic books and anime before it was hip? Watch (crappy) cartoons? Then this book is definitely for you. Go. ...more

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Dec 06, 2011 Matt rated it it was amazing

Well done Sir!

Imagine if you took The Matrix and mixed it with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the good one with Gene Wilder not the crappy Tim Burton version) and played it on an Atari 2600 while listening to The Clash.

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May 03, 2012 Dave rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

Enjoyable, though there was an overload of exposition, especially in the first half. Ending was a little straightforward and preachy. Interesting to see if WB manages to secure the licenses to do a movie.

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