Ready Player One

What a great nostalgic treat. Any child of the 80s should live this book. Fun, action packed and filled with 80s throw backs. Glad my kid recommended it.

Great story, great plot, great character development, great world building. I Absolutely loved all of the 80s cultural references. Highly recommend.

Ready Player One is a really adventurous movie, with humor and drama mixed together in a great way that provides fantastic visual fantasies. The imagination for such a movie began in the book written by Ernest Cline (who maybe even had a screen-play in mind when he wrote it.) Things are a little different from the movie in the book, the work of the movie business trying to maximize the production and make it more appealing. But the imagination is still there. I've read reviews by dissatisfied readers, who didn't like something in the narration or the author's style, but I'm all for giving credit where credit is due. Before this book I can remember Mr. Gibson's terror-driven cyber-crimes, and while that was all great, I like this other approach in RP1, not as an absolute map of the future, but for at least trying not to make it all seem so hopelessly terrible and violent. I've read the 1st chapter of the book, an introduction to the future, and although I don't recognize the scenes of the movie the information is still just as interesting and I want to know more. This kind of work, showing some possible future, will never be as accurate as the real thing, but there's no way to not respect the effort. I like these dreams because I'm also a dreamer. Thanks, Ernest!

This book is mostly depressing. It gets 5 stars for story line and ending. There is a great deal of detail about the Oasis world. The depressing parts are with the real world. I spend a lot of time in video games. I am so happy I don’t live in a real world described in this book. Not sure I want to read the next chapter. I hope you enjoy this book more than I did.

Dystopian future that seems to be getting closer to reality…. I am not a gamer and I still enjoyed the book. A ton of pop culture references from the late 70’s thru the early 90’s, that’s when I grew up, so I got most of them, not sure how they would hit with younger readers. The main villain is basically Elon Musk in 10-15 years.