Ready Player One

Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline

This book is AMAZING! To anyone who lived in the 80’s and is into role playing games, table-top games, video games, fantasy/sci-fi books or anything related to any one of these things then you must read this book. Ready Player One revolves around the story of Wade Watts. A teenage boy who escapes his miserable existence by losing himself in a virtual reality world, the OASIS. This game world is hands down the most popular game of all time. Its used for more than just gaming. Business and schooling take place in the OASIS. The OASIS is built by the greatest game designer of all time. This mysterious creator named Holliday, dies and leaves the keys to the OASIS and the keys to his vast business empire built around the game hidden within the OASIS as an easter egg. The greatest easter egg of all time. Wade Watts along with most of humanity desperately wants to find this easter egg. Wade competes with some hardcore people and a brutal corporation to get find it. Digging through all of Holliday’s passions (80’s centric stuff from games to music to TV shows) looking for clues to its location.

I don’t want to say too much cause even a little could spoil this wonderful story. The book is an homage to all things geek. Someone said its “nostalgia porn for 80’s geek culture” and I couldn’t agree more.