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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline

Start date: November 21, 2017

Finish date: December 20, 2013

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Feb 01, 2014 Michael rated it it was amazing

If you have read any other review about this book you know that even though it takes place in the near future, it is largely preoccupied with 1980's pop culture: movies, video games, board games, music, and television shows. This however doesn't speak much to the story or characters. What I haven't heard yet, is that it is actually very much like Willy Wonka and His Chocolate Factory. The plot is extremely similar, except that instead of a chocolate factory, it's a massive virtual world/game. It ...more

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May 25, 2015 Dea rated it it was ok

Three hundred and seventy four pages of self gratifying fantasy for a middle class heterosexual white male that grew up playing video games. Written in a language accessible to six graders and containing plot and characters so unoriginal that I feel terrible for the space it took up on electronic paper. This book is nothing more than fan service, like a terribly written fan fiction, but if it gets people reading I am all for it I guess.

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Nov 09, 2017 Carro rated it really liked it

I heard of this book, because of a review of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore which reckoned that Ready Player One was a lot better. I decided to give it a go, even though this is a book about a video gamer and I don't play interactive video games -tried once or twice years ago, just wasn't for me. (Patience or Tetris or Sudoko, fine, just not video games.)
The premise of the story is that a massive online interactive world was created (called Oasis) years before the start of the story, and it ha ...more

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