Ready Player One
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4.5 • 442 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
***NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG***
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.
Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.
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If you loved READY PLAYER ONE and can't wait for more, check out ARMADA, Ernest Cline's latest geek masterpiece!
'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent
'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' CNN
'Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' SciFiNow
'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debut' Daily Mail
© Ernest Cline 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2012
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Choosing Wil Wheaton to narrate Ernest Cline’s sci-fi love letter to ’80s pop culture is a stroke of genius. Wheaton is both an online ambassador of geek culture and a living embodiment of '80s trivia (he played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Gordie in Stand by Me). Pouring energy and enthusiasm—and a surprisingly good Sean Connery imitation—into his storytelling, Wheaton channels the giddy nostalgia of Cline’s breathlessly paced virtual reality adventure. In other words, he Crushers it.
Customer Reviews
loove this book
this book is both funny and true. wil wheaton captures the character of wade really well. still better than the movie by far. amazing how much the book differs from the film, have listened to this book 3 times in the last 4 days.
after reading, listening to this book and watching the film i have come to the conclusion i should have been born sooner, not getting the 80s refrences as i was born 2006 but it made me watch the films mentioned, listening to the music. unfortunely dont have the access to the games but yeah definitely should have been born sooner
Love this book
Much better than the movie.
Amazing !
My all time favourite book! Having read this once just before the film came out, now with a busy life and long drives I just couldn’t find the time to pick up the book. The audiobook is amazing and weaton does a fantastic job.