Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) in Blogger's Bookshelf

Jan 03, 2015 Lulufrances rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

WHEEEEEW.
WHAT IN THE WORLD.
This is now officially one of my favourite books - what a way to start the year huh, third book turns into EPIC DISCOVERY.
I loved this so so so much, I cannot rememeber what book had me this immersed last (apart from The Hunger Games, obvs).
Amazing, honestly.
I must admit, I'm probably geekier than I thought I was, but this book was like a bookish wish-fulfillment I didn't even know I had a wish for!
(Well, at least that gives me a good reason to wear my Topshop tee with ...more

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Jun 18, 2014 Jo rated it liked it

Estuve apunto de abandonar este libro en la mitad porque consideraba que el personaje principal (Wade) era bastante enfermo xD,¿por qué?...porque se preocupaba más de su avatar que de su cuerpo real,se dejaba estar,estaba enamorado de una chica que no conocía,no salía de casa,la escuela le daba lo mismo,pero todo eso para él eso es super normal ¬¬

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Otro punto que le baja estrellas,son los infodump. Una cosa es hacer referencias y guiños y otra muy distinta es un copy-paste sacado de Wikipedia.

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Sep 18, 2015 Gemma Roberts van Balen rated it really liked it

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Now that's some serious fun! Admittedly it wasn't until my second attempt at starting the book that I really sank into it and buckled up for the ride, but once I was in a chapter or two I was flying through.
Super creative, incredibly fresh and perhaps rather original ideas; if not a wholy new concept it was certainly of a nature that I myself have never read before. It was a real treat.
Rather long, however, for such a fast paced story and could have been compressed a wee bit but all im all I ha ...more

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Feb 28, 2015 Imogen rated it liked it · review of another edition

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This book came in my February Loot Crate and I was super excited to read it, unfortunately reality wasn't as good as the hype or my expectations.
Now I was born in the nineties, so my knowledge of the eighties is next to nothing. In fact, I really can't think of anything I watch/read/listen to that comes from the eighties. The references this book made kind of flew over my head rather than making my nostalgic, which I think is the main charm of. I g ...more

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Mar 31, 2018 Anjali (This Splendid Shambles) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Ready Player One was so crazy good. I don’t think I had remembered from the reviews I’d read previously that it was so geeky. Halliday loved the 80s, so all the clues, pop culture references and little quips and nods towards things of a time gone by were geek central, and so wonderful. From Star Wars to Back to the Future, Pacman to Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams to Monty Python, there’s a little of everything 80s in this book, which, of course, made it that more entertaining to read.

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Jul 25, 2012 Erin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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When OASIS creator James Halliday dies the world that worships him and his creation are presented with the ultimate challenge; Halliday has left them an Easter Egg and the one who finds it will win the ultimate prize of fortune and power.

At the beginning of the novel in the five years that have passed since Halliday’s death although many people have dedicated their lives to studying his pop culture favourites in the hope of Review originally posted here - http://bloggersbookshelf.blogspot.co....

When OASIS creator James Halliday dies the world that worships him and his creation are presented with the ultimate challenge; Halliday has left them an Easter Egg and the one who finds it will win the ultimate prize of fortune and power.

At the beginning of the novel in the five years that have passed since Halliday’s death although many people have dedicated their lives to studying his pop culture favourites in the hope of finding clues no one has yet made any progress towards finding the first of the three keys; Copper. So when main character Wade Watts, or Parzival as he is known in the OASIS, becomes the first gunter (the name for Halliday’s fans which comes from ‘egg hunters’) to obtain the key and make it through the first gate the story really kicks off. From then on it is all action as we follow Wade on his quest to find the remaining two keys (Jade and Crystal) and hopefully to also be first to find the highly sought after Easter Egg. The gunters however are not the only ones after Halliday’s prize, there is of course a villain in the form of the IOI, a global internet service provider who are out to win by finding loopholes in order to gain control of the OASIS and monetize it.

The book is definitely very geeky, there are a ton of pop-culture references from games to films, television to music and for this reason it does need a little more concentration than your average read. Don’t let this put you off though, the story is very easy to follow even if you don’t fully appreciate each and every reference because Cline has foreseen this issue and they are all sufficiently explained. Amongst the references Ready Player One tackles the modern-world issue of how you choose to represent yourself online, something which most people can relate to – even if you don’t appreciate all of the geeky references!

Protagonist Wade is a likeable and sympathetic character who makes a great guide through this fairly complicated world. Along the way he meets fellow gunters and leaderboard toppers Shoto, Daito, Aech, and most importantly Art3mis. I personally loved the relationships that form between Wade and his fellow gunters, at first each out to win for themselves but at times coming together against the IOI. Without giving away too much I particularly enjoyed the reveal of what each of these characters looked like in real life and in turn the reasons behind the designs of their OASIS avatars. Co-creator of the OASIS Ogden Morrow, or Og, is also a fantastic character.

As much as I loved the plot and characters the most impressive thing about Ready Player One was the planning. Everything little detail was so well thought out and things just seemed to fall into place making it much easier to immerse yourself in Cline’s version of the world. As I was reading I found myself asking questions but just paragraphs or even sentences later I would find the answers and overall I think this makes the whole story much more convincing.

Ready Player One has certainly been one of those books that has stuck with me long after reading it, and although I had never intended to review it, here I am months later still thinking about what a great read it was. This unusual and clever debut novel from Ernest Cline is suitably geeky and extremely enjoyable. 5/5
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Apr 19, 2018 Cait added it · review of another edition

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Jan 14, 2013 Isabelle Marie Flynn rated it it was amazing

Really enjoyed this book, I got off to a slow start, only reading maybe 50 pages in over a month but once the pace picked up I actually devoured the rest of it in less than 2 days.

The geeky references are a joy and the story itself is exciting and fun with a lot of personality. The characters are brilliant especially when you compare those that you see both in the virtual world and IRL. There's a lot of world building but you don't find yourself trawling through pages of description.

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