Loved itI just remember having the best time reading this one. I also ended up rereading it and listening to the audiobook, which is a great time. I love the concept, love the sense of adventure in solving puzzles.
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Ready Player One (2008)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win--and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. (Provided by publisher).
- ISBN:
- 9781524755614
- Length:
- 384 pages
Genres: science fiction, mystery, young adult
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Loved itI have read a fair bit of sci-fi in my time, but Ready Player One is easily my favorite one that I have ever read.
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Loved itI have read Ready Player One now and I actually really enjoyed it. There were quite a lot of references.
Loved itI liked it too I think you know obviously it doesn't have the weight of like a dune or a Hyperion but I enjoyed it for what it was and I'm in defense of the list
Loved itI thought it was such a phenomenal book I loved the storyline a lot of people find Wade extremely annoying but he didn't bother me
Loved itif you have not read ready player one it's coming out as a movie this year I think this year go get the audio version it is fantastic i started to read that book and I got so confused I listen the audio version and I was like mom it was my favorite book when did I read it I think 2016 it was my favorite book of 2016 and it was just so well done I loved it
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Loved itI loved this so much and it was a lot more than I was expecting to. It was so cool and a really fun read.
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Not a fanI read this almost immediately after I read ready player one and really didn't enjoy its depiction of girl gamers
Loved itReady Player one feels like a complete story I think Ready Player one is a great science fiction entry point it is very good for people who like games
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Loved itit's really action-packed and definitely very different from any other book because it's set in a video game like Spy Kids 3D game over but better you know
Loved itI loved Ready Player one and I was really looking forward to Armada
Not a fanI didn't like this book really at all so much so that I did a review on it explaining why I didn't like it
Loved itI loved that this was a mixture of a futuristic setting but also kind of a past setting because you had so many of the 80s references. It was just a great book to nerd out to.
Loved itthis book is essentially a scavenger hunt set in a virtual reality world and just filled with like nerdy and80s pop culture references and it's fantastic
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Loved itthe 80s references are amazing but the thing about this book is it's actually set in 2044 which isn't that far from now
Loved itThe experience of reading this felt really similar to how I felt when I was reading Divergent, which was that it might not be the best overall writing in the world, but it serves its purpose to just be a very fast, fun, engaging read.
Loved itthe book is great it's fast-paced it's hilarious it's amazing okay
Loved itit's a very fun adventure story with a lot of pop cultural video games element in it and it just made my little nerdy geeky hard Blossom so I loved it
Loved itnumber two Ready Player One Ernest Klein this is me this book is everything I love it's like 80s Video Games it's vintage video games with modern V video games in a book it's so good
Loved itthis book is just so much fun and it's such a quick read