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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

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The House in the Cerulean Sea: Reviews by 2025 Reading Challengers
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Sep 16, 2013 Erin Rae L'Hommedieu rated it it was amazing

Wow! Both dystopian and vintage all at once. If you were a child of the 80's and ever played a video game before and maybe were a bit geeky-rad, this is the best book you'll ever read. If you were none of these, don't bother cuz it will be very very weird. I wasn't much of a gamer but I definitely got all of the 80's pop culture references and was thoroughly riveted by this book. ...more

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Dec 19, 2016 Netanella rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, 2016-rrrc-challenge-addicts-reading, dystopian, 2016-december-reading-challenge, cyberpunk

I loved this book for the first 100 or so pages, then I got a little bit bored with the monotony of the hunt for the Easter egg and the game within the game. I felt like I needed to fast forward VH1's Decade of the 80's to get to the resolution. I really wanted to really fall in love with this book, but I just couldn't, even though I am a Child of the 80's and still have my collection of Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks on one of the many bookshelves. Ultimately, I was annoyed at the length of the b ...more

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Jan 15, 2018 Tanya rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018, format-audiobook

I enjoyed this book more than I expected I would at the outset. I am sure the many 80s referenced contributed to that opinion and so it may be a generational consideration as to who I would recommend this to. Overall, I liked the conclusion and message. A few times while reading I felt that the details were not necessary to reveal and it definitely felt like only a male author would feel the need to include that much information. I enjoyed the clever detail of the author including the audiobook ...more

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Mar 25, 2020 Kathy rated it really liked it

This was such an immersive read! The fact that I finished it in 5 days right after Animal Crossing came out is a testament to how amazing it is. I mean it pulled me away from a game that I’ve been waiting to play for a year.

Not only was it immersive, but it was such a great way to revisit a decade long passed and allow a new generation of people to want to go back and learn about it. It was also a big social commentary about how we as a society choose to escape our reality instead of taking cha ...more

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