Ready Player One

Okay, this was one I did as an audiobook with Wil Wheaton performing. Great job Mr. Wheaton, you nailed it. Onward to the story itself and that requires two statements: 1. This is a young adult novel and it has all those tropes, if you don't like young adult novels this will not be for you - I like young adult novels in general but admit this pushed my tolerance; 2. Holy Jumping beans is there a ton of exposition in this novel - I get why it is needed but I just started cliff noting some entire chapters of the middle part of the story because well, I was almost screaming make it stop make it stop stop explaining your story and just tell it. Okay I am better now. There is a lot to recommend in this story - believable characters, well imagined near future world and the bad guys are fully human not just “The Bad Guys”. Story is a coming of age novel and the amount of information about technology in this book well, a post-modernist novelist would be impressed by the info dumping in this one. Overall very good stuff.