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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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Sep 07, 2014 Ricardo Mota rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, distopia

Livro absolutamente fabuloso!
Cada costela geek do meu corpo se contorceu de prazer com este livro, E havia umas que eu nem sabia que existiam. Mas não se deixem intimidar pelo termo "geek" aqui. Não precisam de ser uns crominhos. Basta gostarem de cultura - livros, séries, filmes, música, jogos - para este livro ser do vosso agrado. Se, como eu, nasceram no século passado, então mais ainda. É que o livro está pejado de referências a bandas, jogos, filmes, séries, e tudo o que possam imaginar das ...more

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Oct 06, 2016 K.S. Lewis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, favorite

Oh, my love for this book goes so deep. The fact that is a dystopian society, in which VR (virtual reality) is common and a way most people live their lives, since this real world sucks, is what drew me in. The fact that it is about pop culture in the 80s and video games from the 80s is what kept me hooked. Ernest Cline's writing is so fantastic, it flows so well, I read almost half of this book in just one sitting. I was eager to find out what was next. If I was reading before bed and stopped b ...more

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Feb 23, 2015 Aaron rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand it had some exciting parts and the world/characters were interesting. But on the other hand there are some pretty serious flaws in the writing and plot. The author has the tendency to describe all sorts of details about the virtual gaming world of the novel or 80s pop culture. About half-way through the book I was just tired of paragraphs of descriptions. I just wanted to plot to speed up and move forward.

The other problem is the numerous plot ...more

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Aug 07, 2017 Hilary rated it really liked it

Shelves: favourite, impressive-concept, life-changers, intense-af, owned, fav-17-in-2017, sff

Unputdownable! I'm really excited for the movie adaptation. Imagine all the easter eggs!! The pace was agonisingly slow for me during the first 70 pages but it becomes super intense after that.

I'm still amazed by those first few pages, by the way. I dare say it's the most unforgettable and gripping prologue I have ever read. ...more

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