Ready Player One

[flameboy]

 

Ok so it's not often we see a single thread for a book but I defintely think this warrants it. For me it represents a defining moment in videogame novels. Now sure there are plenty of perfectly workable videogame adaptations but this is much more a game that encapsulates the video game world that we all know know and love. Also a very healthy smattering of 80's cultural references have simply made me fall in love with the book! Not finished it yet but cannot put it down.

 

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Fascinating and imaginative...It's non-stop action when gamers must navigate clever puzzles and outwit determined enemies in a virtual world in order to save a real one. Readers are in for a wild ride. --Terry Brooks, #1 New York Times bestselling author

 

Ready Player One expertly mines a copious vein of 1980s pop culture, catapulting the reader on a light-speed adventure in an advanced but backward-looking future. If this book were a living room, it would be wood-paneled. If it were shoes, it would be high-tops. And if it were a song, well, it would have to be Eye of the Tiger. I really, really loved it. --Daniel H. Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising and Robopocalypse

 

The pure, unfettered brainscream of a child of the 80s, like a dream my 13-year-old self would have had after bingeing on Pop Rocks and Coke...I couldn't put it down. --Charles Ardai, Edgar Award-winning author and producer of Haven

 

Pure geek heaven. Ernest Cline's hero competes in a virtual world with life-and-death stakes -- which is only fitting, because he's fighting to make his dreams into reality. Cline blends a dystopic future with meticulously detailed nostalgia to create a story that will resonate in the heart of every true nerd. --Chris Farnsworth, author of Blood Oath

 

Ready Player One is a fantastic adventure set in a futuristic world with a retro heart. Once I started reading, I didn't want to put it down and I couldn't wait to pick it back up.

--S.G. Browne, author of Breathers and Fated

 

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A jaw-droppingly cinematic, genre-busting debut that's part virtual space opera, part classic coming-of-age story, part brilliant pop-culture mash-up

[Eightbit]

Old Bump here.

 

I've just finished reading the book and it was fantastic. I was born in the 90's so didnt get a few of the references but ive had Wikipedia up whilst reading, and Youtube for the song references.

 

It pretty much ticked all my boxes, a must read for Video Game fans, id advise all of you to pick it up, the concept is unreal and made me so excited, feels like a constant daydream.

 

Cant believe he actually put a hidden easter egg in the book which leads to 'The First Gate' on the internet which is inspired by the hunt in the Novel itself.