“This non-gamer loved every page of Ready Player One.” - Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author But with better hygiene and less crowds." It felt like coming home, same way conventions make me feel. As a gamer, as a music lover, as a geek I loved it. And to find it, you must like what he liked, obsess over what he obsessed over, walk in his shoes. The future has become obsessed with the subculture of today's fandom because the richest man in the world left his fortune to who ever can find his Easter egg.
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The book is full of 80s pop culture and the vastness that is geekdom. I could go into more details, but I'd rather let people discover the story for themselves. At least that is what I took from this story.
It is the story of rising up, finding and fighting for something greater than oneself, and really finding oneself.
He lives most of his life inside Oasis, inside a digital world. His parents are dead, he lives in the slums with his aunt who only lets him live there so she can take his food vouchers. Set in a few decades in the future after the economical collapse of the world. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win-and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines-puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.īut when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The worldwide bestseller-now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.” - iO9 Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.” -NPR Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.” - Boston Globe part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.” -CNN NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly The race is on-and the only way to survive is to win. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize.
Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune-and control of the OASIS itself.
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When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”- Entertainment WeeklyĪ world at stake.Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”- USA Today Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
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