Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Posted on 07 April 2017 by Ernest Cline

In the year 2045, 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 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. Free Download [ Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) ] author [ Ernest Cline ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I originally gave this book 3 stars as harmless lightweight fun, but my opinion of it declined as time went by Then after reading Armada I fully realized what a talentless one trick hack that Cline really is so I changed this rating Plus, his outraged hardcore fans kept coming on here and telling me that I missed the point since I didn t give it 5 stars so I might as well give them something to really be mad about If you re one of those Cline fans who wants to whine about it in the comments I I originally gave this book 3 stars as harmless lightweight fun, but my opinion of it declined as time went by Then after reading Armada I fully realized what a talentless one trick hack that Cline really is so I changed this rating Plus, his outraged hardcore fans kept coming on here and telling me that I missed the point since I didn t give it 5 stars so I might as well give them something to really be mad about If you re one of those Cline fans who wants to whine about it in the comments I will just delete it and block you.Adventures in Time Mowing After my laptop fused to my lawn mower due to a freak lightning strike, I discovered that I could use it to travel through time. Wow, where d you come from I m from 2011 Got a time mower and decided to come to the future I ll spare you the full origin story My name s Kemper I m Wade Watts Welcome to 2044 Thanks I gotta say, things are looking kind of g...For most of the first half of this book, I was unimpressed The writing was flat, and the story was unremarkable The book gets hype because of its pervasive use of 1980s popular culture, particularly its references to science fiction, fantasy, and video games The problem was that most of these references served no purpose Something would be described by pointing out its resemblance to something from a film or television show a particularly annoying form of telling, rather than showing given For most of the first half of this book, I was unimpressed The writing was flat, and the story was unremarkable The book gets hype because of its pervasive use of 1980s popular culture, particularly its references to science fiction, fantasy, and video games The problem was that most of these references served no purpose Something would be described by pointing out its resemblance to something from a film or television show a particularly annoying form of telling, rather than showing given that a reader of the wrong age or background won t know the reference but said reference would add nothing to the events at hand Either that, or the reference would be carried to cringe worthy, fan fiction grade extremes For instance, in one scene, the online avatar of the main character, Wade Watts known online as Parzival pilots a DeLorean DMC 12 resembling the one used in the Back to the Future films, e...I got to read an ARC of this, and it appealed to every geeky part of me I ll probably write a blog about it later, but for now, a brief review Simply said This book was fucking awesome.So disappointing The premise of a treasure hunt inside a gigantic immersive online environment is interesting I like the idea of the people of 2044 being fixated on 80s culture for clues to solving the puzzle The execution simply doesn t live up to the promise The writing goes like this interestinginterestinginterestingINFODUMP interesti BIGGER INFODUMPand so forth I honestly don t know who the intended audience is The author overexplains all the 80s references as if he expects readers So disappointing The premise of a treasure hunt inside a gigantic immersive online environment is interesting I like the idea of the people of 2044 being fixated on 80s culture for clues to solving the puzzle The execution simply doesn t live up to the promise T...This book is a geek fantasy A nerd utopia Speaking as a formerly addicted World of Warcraft player among others , I loved it.I believe you can tell the author s passion from what he s written, and it is clear from this book that Ernest Cline is a fellow gamer and geek I salute him His ardor for games is so clearly felt within this book A fellow fangirl fanboy can sniff out a fake one like a dead fish within a Bath and Body Works ok, that may be a bad example, but you catch my drift Erne This book is a geek fantasy A nerd utopia Speaking as a formerly addicted World of Warcraft player among others , I loved it.I believe you can tell the author s passion from what he s written, and it is clear from this book that Ernest Cline is a fellow gamer and geek I salute him His ardor for games is so clearly felt within this book A fellow fangirl fanboy can sniff out a fake one like a dead fish within a Bath and Body Works ok, that may be a bad example, but you catch my drift Ernest Cline is a real deal fanboy I salute you, sir.This book is for fanboys and fangirls There are those who don t like it There are those who feel that there are needless references, inserted solely for a wink and a nudge from t...This book is nostalgia porn If you grew up in the 80s, enjoy video games, or go crazy for popular culture, you will devour this one I was supposed to be reading this with a friend but I couldn t stop I read the beginning and thought, what s the big deal with everyone s obsession Then Ernest Cline got his meat hooks into me and I read it while I was making dinner, while I was eating dinner, and then afterward until I d finished it I think I am just a few years shy of this books prime audie This book is nostalgia porn If you grew up in the 80s, enjoy video games, or go crazy for popular culture, you will devour this one I was supposed to be reading this with a friend but I couldn t stop I read the beginning and thought, what s the big deal with everyone s obsession Then Ernest Cline got his meat hooks into me and I read it while I was making dinner, while I was eating dinner, and then afterward until I d finished it I think I am just a few years shy of this books prime audience but I can see how it will appeal to most of my fellow geek friends Ready Player One is set in a future where we have depleted our resources to the point where many people lives in Stacks, which are basically just trailer homes piled 20 high, and many people struggle to make ends meet Wade Watts, the protagonist, attends school in OASIS like many of his peers OASIS, an online world created by James Halliday, contains thousands of different worlds, including copies of many famous sci fi ve...That one star is probably misleadingI thought this was going to be a 4 5 star book for a good portion of the time I spent reading it The 80s pop culture references are so pervasive and so relevant to my life that, at times, the book felt like it been written specifically for me The love interest is described as being like Jordan, from Real Geniusc mon But.All of the Star Wars, Ferris Bueller, and Highlander references in the world can t hide that this story is at best, empty, and at wo That one star is p...NERDGASM Video games, movies and music from the 80 s My teenage years were spent during the 80 s I look through the pictures that were taken at that time and realize we could have been called a cheesy generation This book saves us This book makes us cool I actually wanted to revisit those times after reading this book It s not deep literature but it is pure fun I smiled and cheered so many times reading Wade s story, even though you know how the book is going to end it is still a po NERDGASM Video games, movies and music from the 80 s My teenage years were spent during the 80 s I look through the pictures that were taken at that time and realize we could have been called a cheesy generation This book saves us This book makes us c...I m not crazy about reality, but it s still the only place to get a decent meal Groucho MarxThe middle school I attended was a 1930s WPA project that by the 1970s was a lethal cocktail of toxic mold from the water leaks and cancer causing asbestos I m hoping, since several decades have passed, that all the nasty microbes I inhaled while conjugating verbs and wrestling with algebra have long since been frog marched out of my body I was a rural kid and had to wait for the bus to come pick me I m not crazy about reality, but it s still the only place to get a decent meal Groucho MarxThe middle school I attended was a 1930s WPA project that by the 1970s was a lethal cocktail of toxic mold from the water leaks and cancer causing asbestos I m hoping, since several decades have passed, that all the nasty microbes I inhaled while conjugating verbs and wrestling with algebra have long since been frog marched out of my body I was a rural kid and had to wait for the bus to come pick me up after school The bus was always late which was a real pain in the ass for a scrawny kid like me who was trying to avoid the hulking, megalithic Hoover clan They were massive, with beach ball...lo i have made a readalike list for this book over on riffle me get the gripes out of the way first, because despite overall being a fun, escapist book, there are things that rankle.i have a crush on the 80 s not an obsession, mind you, but a crush when i was little i managed to simultaneously want to make out with both jon cryer and molly ringwald and to this day depeche mode s album black celebration soothes many...

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07 April 2017

Ernest Cline