Ready Player One Review – Awesome! @erniecline @wilw
In a video I did last week I mentioned a book called Ready Player One that was I “reading” and today since I finished it I thought I’d give you guys a bit of a review. Ready Player One is AWESOME! What you want more? Okay.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline read by Wil Wheaton in the audiobook version I listened to is sort of a cyber punk version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The story starts off when the creator of the world’s most popular video game.. which is really more then a video game its the world that humanity basically lives in dies. Instead of leaving his vast fortune to specific person he has created a contest where the winner the person who found an easter egg he has hidden in the OASIS video game will sort of take over all his wealth and have the keys to the castle if you will.
The story follows 5 main ‘gunters’ those who dedicate their lives to the hunt for the egg as they try to beat the evil corporation Innovative Online Industries (IOI) in finding it. Along it there are countless references to pop culture specifically from the 80s but also many other decades as well as the heroes play old video games old movies music and much more.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys scifi or who grew up on old video games. It has as I mentioned earlier a sort of theme feel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but also takes place in a Snow Crash/Matrix like metaverse. If you consider yourself a geek as I do you’ll surely enjoy this. 🙂
Lastly I’m looking for more great books to listen to. Please leave your suggestions in the comments. 🙂
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