Ready Player One (spoilers) - My New Fav Book
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Re: Ready Player One (spoilers) - My New Fav Book
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I myself really enjoyed this book, even though it wasn’t well paced or well written in a lot of parts. I though the overall story was worth giving it a read. I do believe it should do well as a film, maybe even better than it has at being a book, if it is done well that is.
Feel free to let me know what you think however!
I was just wondering if anybody else has read this and what they think?
I’m new here and hope to become a good addition to this community.
If anyone can give me tips on how to get started then I would be happy to hear them. Also I thought it would be good to introduce myself by making a topic for us to talk about here.
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Hello kandscreeley, I got mine on Audible, as an audio copy, but I am pretty sure that they have it on amazon.kandscreeley wrote: ↑26 Jan 2018, 09:25 I have not read the book nor did I know it was being turned into a movie. Is it on Amazon?
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I have just finished reading Ready Player One as well, and I loved it. I agree that there are moments when 1980's become overrated, and things become to get said a few times, so I felt like reading the same thing again and again.
But I also loved the whole - contest- element in it, and the way the characters thought and felt, and I really loved Parzival
As for the movie, I am so excited to see it, and I kind of think that there will be a lot of recent movies and video games featured as well, I saw Tracer from Overwatch in the trailer etc.
But I really loved the idea of a virtual world, and even though we are very close to it, I mean we have VR games and all sorts of Alexa's and etc, but imagine working and going to school in the Oasis, as an avatar. Would you like that? I think that would be nice, but I prefer the reality. Do you maybe think that that is what is going to happen in the next few years? People going all virtual?
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This is a review of the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It is the first audio book I have ever listened to. I am more of a paperback copy type of girl - but I must admit, I really loved listening to Wil Wheaton's voice!Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.
We are in the year 2045, where while Earth is deserted and almost destroyed, people don’t realise because they are too busy living in a virtual world - the Oasis!
The Oasis is a place where you can create an avatar for free, you can level up, you go to a school and you work inside the Oasis. This virtual world is filled with references from the 1980s. Cities are built in such a way, video games and books and movies still go on.
When the famous creator of the Oasis, James Halliday, dies, it turns out that there is a contest, and the person that will manage to find the ‘’egg’’ would inherit ownership of the Oasis.
We see the story from the point of view of the young Wade, that calls himself Parzival in the Oasis. He is in love with everything from the 1980’s, you name it - video games, pop culture, movies, shows, books. He is also amazed with Halliday’s work and life.
When five years from James Halliday’s death pass, people seem to have forgotten about the contest, and that’s when Parzival’s courage and knowledge will help him find the first key that unlocks the first of the three gates for the contest, putting him on the top of the scoreboard, and after five years, people start talking about Haliday’s ‘’egg’’ again.
Making friends along the way, and maybe finding the love of his life, Parzival faces millions of challenges, adventures, dangerous, funny and adorable moments. This is a book that will reveal a whole new world for you, and make you love Parzival while you follow his adventure into winning the contest. I am giving this book 4 out of 4 stars today, tomorrow and every other day on.
With time running out, danger surrounding from all sides, and suddenly finding the ‘’egg’’ becoming a life or death game, Parzival and his friends have no choice but to win this contest. But will they make it, with the IOI Corporation behind their backs, following them both in the real and in the virtual world, endangering their lives?
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Nice review - this is a favorite book of mine for lots of reasons, including all the 1980s references. Can't wait to see the movie later this month!
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I've never listened to an audio book because I'm afraid I wouldn't focus, but a few of my friends listened to this one while I was reading the paperback, and I have to say knowing it was Wil Wheaton did make me want to check it out. Maybe I'll listen to it before I see the movie!