#Read26Indy discussion

I am finally getting around to start the challenge, and I remembered I wanted to read this book "Ready Player One" so here it goes.

I'm starting off with 1Q84 so I will probably be a little behind, but I have a lot of Hemingway I will be reading to even things out. I plan on reading some Borges and early Lovecraft so I'm wondering how all these short stories will figure in.

I've heard great things about Ready Player One - definitely hoping to get to it this year. I have a lot of mystery novels I'm reading for an elective that will dominate the first couple months, even though they're not my typical cup of tea. Want to read Jennifer Egan oeuvre this year as well.

Robert wrote: "I've heard great things about Ready Player One - definitely hoping to get to it this year. I have a lot of mystery novels I'm reading for an elective that will dominate the first couple months, eve..."

I forget how I even came across this book, but I figured with this challenge, it would be a great one to start with.

Ready Player One is a lot of fun especially if you're into old school video games and nerdy things like that.

Grant wrote: "Ready Player One is a lot of fun especially if you're into old school video games and nerdy things like that."

I'm getting that vibe from it as I'm almost 100 pages into it. I am hoping to get more of it done tomorrow and Monday as the snow storm hits.

I should make this a part of my 26 as it's one I bought on a past recommendation and would thematically link nicely with one I'm finishing from last year, Grossman's "You".

James wrote: "I should make this a part of my 26 as it's one I bought on a past recommendation and would thematically link nicely with one I'm finishing from last year, Grossman's "You"."

Looks like I'll have to add that book you mentioned as I was wondering where would I go next. Already halfway through this first book of what could be a lot of reading.

Finished up that book already today! See what good a snow day is. Time to look for the next book to read.

I loved Ready Player One, listened to the audio book last summer. Wil Wheaton reads it and he is just perfect, as I sort of picture the main character as a Wesley Crusher type.

Teresa wrote: "I loved Ready Player One, listened to the audio book last summer. Wil Wheaton reads it and he is just perfect, as I sort of picture the main character as a Wesley Crusher type."

Oh man Wesley Crusher reads it aloud! I've never done an audio book,so perhaps I'll look into that avenue.

This was a great book - but I can see how it would probably only be truly appreciated by 80's and 90's gaming/pop culture nerds. My wife would hate it! :)

I'm almost finished with "You" and it's kind of making me wish I had worked a bit harder during those high school programming classes. Conversely, it gives me hope that the time I spent drawing dragons and mazes in the margins of my notebooks wasn't all for naught. I'm suspecting "Ready Player One" will scratch a similar itch.

Ready Player One was one of my favorites of last year.

Nicole wrote: "Ready Player One was one of my favorites of last year."

agreed. this was a really fun read.

Digging into this. It's fun and breezy. I was worried at first that it was just going to read like a list of references but I'm beginning to enjoy the merging of these different genre ideas into a new bizarro nostalgia future world.

I finished it a couple days ago. Gratuitous Wil Wheaton reference was gratuitous. It was a light romp. Would have liked some more meat here and there. Very middle of the road for me personally. Even as a sucker for a VR premise. The real world cyberpunky chapters were probably my favorite parts.

Edited: Sorry, I posted in the wrong thread somehow!

I finished My Sister Chaos and it was really different and interesting. A woman, whose name we never learn, is a refugee from a war-torn country obsessed with creating a topographical map of her house. Her twin sister (whose name we also never know) arrives unannounced, the first time they have seen each other since the twin abandoned her soon after they emigrated. I recommend it.

I also got sucked into The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters and ended up finishing it over the weekend. I highly recommend that as well. A police detective believes that a suicide by hanging in a McDonalds bathroom is actually a murder, and he's intent on solving it. Oh, and its been announced with 100% certainty that in around six months an asteroid will hit earth and kill everyone. The detective is still determined to solve the case, even if in a year it won't matter. I've put a request in at the library for the sequel.

Jane, I think the third installation is due out this summer or fall. I'd heard good things about this series and thought I'd wait and read them all when the whole story is available.

Michael, I know, it's hard for me to wait to find out what happens next!