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I can see why Ernest Cline got all the attention for READY PLAYER ONE.
The story is a remarkably original take on the idea of a story set in virtual reality.
For those who haven't read it, here's the basics:
1) Boy is trapped in a dystopian reality in which the infrastructure has decayed and most of humanity is hanging on by their fingernails.
2) The chief entertainment and the constant amusement of most of the population is the 3D immersive world they live in thru headsets and taptic interfaces.
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The story is a remarkably original take on the idea of a story set in virtual reality.
For those who haven't read it, here's the basics:
1) Boy is trapped in a dystopian reality in which the infrastructure has decayed and most of humanity is hanging on by their fingernails.
2) The chief entertainment and the constant amusement of most of the population is the 3D immersive world they live in thru headsets and taptic interfaces.
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Can't believe it took me so long to read and that I almost quit early on. I LOVED this book!
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I think it's just really hard to not like this book. It's just so...likeable. Well, it's likeable if you like 80s pop culture and dystopia and video games. And I just happen to like all those things. Also, puzzles.
Reading this book is like basically reading a walk-through of someone playing a puzzle adventure game. Which sounds like it could be immensely boring, but somehow is not. I love to PLAY puzzle adventure games, and somehow reading one is just as entertaining.
This isn't a complicated bo ...more
Reading this book is like basically reading a walk-through of someone playing a puzzle adventure game. Which sounds like it could be immensely boring, but somehow is not. I love to PLAY puzzle adventure games, and somehow reading one is just as entertaining.
This isn't a complicated bo ...more
I found the world an interesting cautionary tale of what happens when we are all lost in a fantasy world. Immersed in virtual reality the real world is no longer maintained. That as the environment degrades more people crowd into the cities looking for sustenance is a curious proposition, not sure how valid that is in past disasters. The crowding is why RV parks go vertical!
The American psyche has a strong frontier component, where I would think more people would go to isolated areas in small g ...more
The American psyche has a strong frontier component, where I would think more people would go to isolated areas in small g ...more
the hype is that e.c. is in the same rarefied air as sterling, stephenson, and gibson, that this is the decade's neuromancer. at first i found his prose too easy, but we are living in a post-rowling world. by the second half of the story i was engrossed in the adventure. there are some great ideas in here, the depiction of online education in the middle of this century is worth the price of admission alone. so many great moments as it layers on the pop culture references of the 80's (having live
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A charming enough idea, but the writing falls a little flat for me. Although a tad predictable, many fellow geeks would enjoy it. I got a little sick of the constant name-dropping, however. Show, not tell, Ernest.
I enjoyed the shit out of this book. An underdog winning against all odds? Scifi mixed with scads of eighties references? Rush and Max Headroom and Dungeons and Dragons and Commodore 64 computers? A super compelling romance between two competitors? SIGN ME UP.
May 26, 2011
Sarah
marked it as maybe-someday
Sep 14, 2011
Janie
marked it as or-not-to-read
May 20, 2013
Mari
marked it as to-read
Jul 30, 2013
Eric Manix
marked it as to-read
Jul 09, 2016
Stephanie Rhodes
marked it as to-read
Mar 28, 2017
Leanna Hammond
marked it as to-read
Aug 05, 2017
Andrea
marked it as to-read
