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I bought this book for the library when it first came out because we have patrons who are gamers and would check it out. I read it (despite having little interest in video games) because one of our library's reading challenges was to read "A book that's becoming a movie in 2018". Who knew it would be fun? Our hero, Wade Owen Watts (avatar name: Parzival), is a young man with little going for him (in a world that I can, frighteningly, see us heading for [income inequality]). He is an ophan, livin
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OMG...well sort of.
So I've been planning to read this book since I noticed in the Library Journal and I even checked it out with a stack of others, and never read it. This time I was determined...
So determined that I slugged through the first chapters which were not reflecting the promises made by the book reviews...and then, it began to get wonderful. Even from the beginning it is a pop culture, gamer paradise of geekdom but when the real action of the story picked up it became compelling as we ...more
So I've been planning to read this book since I noticed in the Library Journal and I even checked it out with a stack of others, and never read it. This time I was determined...
So determined that I slugged through the first chapters which were not reflecting the promises made by the book reviews...and then, it began to get wonderful. Even from the beginning it is a pop culture, gamer paradise of geekdom but when the real action of the story picked up it became compelling as we ...more
Dec 12, 2012
Suzanne Moore
marked it as to-read
Aug 18, 2013
Zach Fulbright
marked it as to-read
