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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline

Start date: February 1, 2020

Finish date: February 29, 2020

Discussion: Group Books of the Month (BotM)

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Oct 05, 2012 Trisha rated it really liked it

what a fun read! Get ready to be fully immersed into some really classic 80's and 90's movies, sayings, songs and games. And the history of games is just amazing - I love video games and have been playing them for a long time! Hearing the history and some of the things I didn't know was just hilarious!

I really enjoyed learning the world around Wade. How we got to this point and what Oasis is. It's become too expensive to drive anywhere or fly. So there is a complete on-line world called Oasis. ...more

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Jan 19, 2017 Renuka rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, young-adult, science-fiction, adventure, romance, action, thriller, suspense, 2017-favorites, stand-alone

I cannot believe I waited so long to read this. I thought I was bored of all the dystopia novels out there, but this was incredible.

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Mar 11, 2018 Susan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, own-in-book-format, friendship, read-in-2018

Loved it! I’m just a sentimental fool, I know, but this book was so entertaining! I think my favorite line was, “I was rockin’ like Dokken.” 🤘 I definitely recommend this to all my fellow children of the 80s!

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Mar 01, 2013 Michael rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, this-years-books

Day dreaming about the past, and doing it while wearing a pair of rose colored glasses. The past was not all the great, but we filter out the parts we didn't like and just recall the fun. And that what it was like reading Ready Player One fun. If you there the little inside jokes are fun and if you were not the whole decade is presented as fun. That is what the book is just fun. It is not great. It is not deep. It is easy to guess the ending and you can see that the idea of making it into a movi ...more

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