![]() ![]() Whoever gets to the end will win his whole fortune and control of the OASIS. The inventor of the OASIS James Halliday (a kind of Steve Jobs character) died and revealed in his will that he left an easter egg trail inside the OASIS. So the actual story focuses on our protagonist Wade aka Parzival, a teenager who (like most of the population of Earth) escapes his terrible real life by living inside an online world called the OASIS. Reading this book is just like swimming around in a world of all your favourite things with a decent, suspenseful (if a little cheesy) plot. Oh and the music, the music! Has anybody made a Ready Player One play list? Somebody definitely should. ![]() Video game geeks will also be in total heaven, again I'm too young to have played any of these games but I am definitely aware of them as a video game fan. ![]() Mostly 80s references and as somebody who is a bit too young (I was born in 1988) to actually remember any of it I have a totally healthy obsession with the 1980s so I was happily understanding most of them. the term "bookgasm" definitely applies here. Or the more plausible explanation is that he is one of us. It's like Ernest Cline climbed into the collective geek brain and pulled out the best book ever. Why did it take so long to get around to?! I know I'm not the only one is saying that I feel like this book was written for me. ![]()
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