If you follow me on Facebook, you know I've been yammering feverishly about the book READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline.
YOU GOTTA READ IT, y'all.
(And, no, that's not grammatically correct, if you're one of my students creeping on my blog, but when you're as awesome as me, you can break the rules and get away with it. Not unless you're me, though.)
My mom suggested the book about a week ago, and it sounded so good I downloaded it right away. She described it using comparisons like Ender's Game, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, with a dash of World of Warcraft. And I was all like, "Heck yes!"
The premise is that the world is falling apart (dystopian crap, yada yada yada), but there's this cool internet-like cyberspace called OASIS where you can plug in and actually travel to all these different worlds and do basically whatever you want. So everyone ignores the real world (because it's so depressing) and spends all their time online.
And there's this multibillionaire who created the OASIS, as well as a bunch of videogames, and he decides to create one last epic game for people to play when he passes away. The winner will receive all of his fortune and power. The best part is that he's laced the game with all of these cool eighties pop culture references, like Better Off Dead and Contra.
Reading this book made me miss playing WoW, guys. I was THISCLOSE to downloading it on my new computer this morning after finishing the book, but somehow I refrained.
Seriously. Read this book.
Oh also also I just hit 30k on my new project and don't completely hate it! Wheeeeee!!!!
Wow! Sound awesome!! Totally putting it on my to be read list!! Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome! Hope you enjoy it! :)
ReplyDeleteI just hope Player Two gets a chance.
ReplyDeleteI guess you'll have to read to find out!
DeleteA friend of ours loaned us this as an audiobook. I bought the Kindle version after listening to it. The audiobook is read by Wil Wheaton, which makes it all the more amusing when you catch the reference to him in the book. :) There were a few plot holes but it was such an awesome story that I can't fault the author for those holes. It's just really a cool story.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to buy it for my classroom library for the kids who like ENDER'S GAME.
DeleteI think that'll be awesome. I liked ENDER'S GAME and ENDER'S SHADOW (but interestingly enough I don't like any of the other Ender books). I think I'd have liked READY PLAYER ONE when I was a teenager, though I think more of the references would have been lost on me. I only paid attention to the 80's once I was out of them. I was a kid in the 80's, but I couldn't tell you much about that time period.
DeleteYeah, I watched 80s movies when I was a teen (in the 90s), and by that time they were already retro.
DeleteI only read ENDER'S GAME, none of the others.
I rarely leave remarks, however i did a few searching and
ReplyDeletewound up here "READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline".
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