Ready Player One

If you are any type of fantasy, sci fi or video game fan this book is a must read! While I'm a 90s child not an 80s there were still some great memories that popped up. My parents and brother made sure I had my fair share of 80s influence. Coleco and Atari were my first video game systems and my mother loved Godzilla. We owned just about every VHS. The depth of imagination it took to piece together all these classics is amazing and I hope to see either a sequel, or another novel set in the OASIS. I did leave this novel with one question; why does Wade hate looking in the mirror? I wondered if it was due to his addiction to the OASIS. I enjoyed how this novel had a background story about game addiction. It is very easy to be lost in games, but ultimately Wade finds that the real world offers things even the virtual cannot. While this did not dominate the story, it was sprinkled in among the pages. And while it would have been a pain for Parzival and the rest, I wish Voltron had made an appearance :) Although Mechagodzilla was a nice touch.