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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline

Start date: January 1, 2019

Finish date: January 31, 2019

Discussion: September 2025 Group Read

Discussion leader: oshizu

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Jan 16, 2015 Kristen rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-book, sci-fi, book-club, post-apocalyptic-dystopian, 2015, 2020

When this book was selected for book club and I heard the description, my first thought was, "How boring." Reading numerous mixed reviews on it merely reinforced my hesitation to read it.

Then I bit the bullet, started reading it, and basically didn't stop until I was finished. I blew through this one in a few hours, stopping only to sleep and, like, take care of my daughter.

What a fun book! I thought the premise was unique enough and the bad guys were just bad enough. The heroes were socially ...more

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May 01, 2018 Deborah P. rated it liked it

As a woman who was around in the 80’s , I don’t think I was the intended audience for this book. It was certainly interesting, I enjoyed many of the 80’s references, and it did get better as it went on, but I just don’t know many people my age who are anywhere as close to revering video games as the characters in this book. Sure, everyone enjoyed playing them back in the day, but not to the point of worship. I think that view of video games is much more prevalent today where it becomes almost an ...more

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Jun 01, 2016 Samantha rated it really liked it

Shelves: around-the-year-in-52-books

This was so much better than I expected when I first read the description. Glad I took a chance on it.

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Apr 10, 2015 Susan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, read-2015, read-2020

I originally re-read this book in order to prepare for Ready Player Two, but now I'm not even sure I'm going to read it (since the reviews for that book is so bad). I really enjoyed reading this book again, but I also realized how much different it is for the movie. I mean...wow. LOL! ...more

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