Ready Player One

I wasn't really liking this book during the first half but the after I reached like 60% I was already into the story and really rooting for the characters, though I'm not going to read the second one I think this was a good book.

For many, you either love this book or you hate it. As a work of literature, let's be honest, it's not great. The plot is fairly straightforward and the characters don't have great depth. What makes this book stand out are the references to 1980s pop culture. For me, some of it just passed me by whilst other elements gave me a real sense of nostalgia. Overall, a fun, if somewhat forgettable read.

This was not a book I thought I would read. However, it was such a popular book, I had to get it. So glad I did. It was very engaging and interesting.

Capolavoro. Splendido il finale. Anche se non ho potuto sempre capire tutte le citazioni, è davvero un gran libro.

9/10

Amazing book!

“Ready Player One” è un romanzo eccezionale che cattura l'immaginazione dei lettori fin dalla prima pagina. Con un mix coinvolgente di avventura, fantascienza e nostalgia degli anni ‘80, Ernest Cline ci regala un'avventura epica nel mondo virtuale di OASIS.

La trama segue le gesta di Wade Watts, un adolescente appassionato di videogiochi che vive in un futuro distopico. Attraverso la sua narrazione coinvolgente e ricca di dettagli, Cline ci trasporta in un mondo virtuale incredibilmente dettagliato e affascinante. L'autore dipinge un quadro vivido dell'OASIS, un universo digitale in cui le persone possono sfuggire dalla realtà e vivere le loro fantasie.

Ciò che rende questo libro così straordinario è la sua capacità di combinare abilmente elementi di cultura pop degli anni '80 con una trama coinvolgente e personaggi ben sviluppati. I riferimenti a videogiochi, film, musica e altro ancora sono una gioia per gli amanti di quel decennio, ma nonostante ciò, il libro rimane accessibile e coinvolgente per tutti i lettori.

La scrittura di Cline è vivida e avvincente, con descrizioni dettagliate che rendono facile immergersi completamente nel mondo descritto. Le scene di azione sono ben costruite e mantengono il ritmo del romanzo costantemente alto, tenendoci incollati alle pagine fino all'ultima parola.

Inoltre, i personaggi di “Ready Player One” sono ben caratterizzati e facili da affezionarsi. Wade è un protagonista affascinante e la sua determinazione nel cercare l'enigmatica “chiave di Ovum” e sconfiggere la malvagia corporazione IOI è davvero coinvolgente. Anche i personaggi di supporto, come la coraggiosa Art3mis e l'eccentrico Aech, aggiungono profondità e umanità alla storia.

In conclusione, “Ready Player One” è un libro che trasuda passione per la cultura pop degli anni ‘80, avventura e una buona dose di suspence. Ernest Cline ha creato un mondo virtuale affascinante e ci ha regalato una storia coinvolgente che appassionerà sia i lettori più giovani che quelli più adulti. Consiglio vivamente questo libro a chiunque sia in cerca di un'avventura emozionante e di un tuffo nella nostalgia.

Da questo libro è stato tratta anche un film animato di successo, che consiglio a tutti di vedere... ma prima leggete il libro! In conclusione se avete vissuto anche voi gli splendidi anni ‘80, non potete certo mancare questo libro (e questo film).

As with all movies (almost), the book is better than the movie, which is true here as well. Having enjoyed fiction and science fiction growing up, I enjoyed reading Ready Player One as it brought me back to when I was younger.

Growing up, I hardly ever played video games. I mostly spent my time reading, watching cartoons or playing outdoors. So in most parts of this book, I couldn't connect to what the characters were doing or experiencing. And I think for most people, this book is a comfort read purely for the nostalgia it evokes.
But I've got to say, even though I got maybe 1 out of 5 references made, I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
This book was fast paced, action packed and I flew through it! The geeky banter was so much fun to read!

Switching to some negatives, the first thing that really annoyed me was the number of times trivial things were reiterated! I mean, I get it, a girl in the OASIS could actually be a guy called Chuck living in his mom's basement.I get it! Arg! But I'm overreacting haha. The repetitions stopped once the actual story took over or maybe I stopped paying attention to them. I don't know which.
Some details felt unnecessary but it didn't pull me out of the story so it didn't bother me that much.

So overall, this was a fun read.
If you were/are a person who likes to escape into video games and 80's music and movies are your jam, you'll LOVE this book. But even if you don't, the story is quite unique and entertaining and still is equally enjoyable! :)

This was so good!!
I'm not even that nerdy and I still loved all the obscure references. So fun! Go read this book!

3.5

I Loveddd this book. I thought it was extremely well done and totally captivating throughout the entirety of the story. It has something for everyone here: action, an underdog, betrayal, quest, love, friendship, hardship, etc. This book was unlike anything I have ever read. Set in a futuristic world, there was also some alarm as it did a really good job of potentially predicting what the world may look like in the 2040s. I do think we are progressing that way technologically. I don't want to dive in too much, but if you are looking for a sci-fi quest novel with the above themes that is equal parts endearing and entertaining, then look no further! Highly recommend for al geeks/nerds, and lovers of all things 1980s.

I skipped this one the first time around, but when one of my blogging friends said this was “the best audio she'd ever listened to,” and noted that the audio was read by Will Wheaton, I found a copy and gave it a listen.

This grew into one of those fun experiences that we sometimes have with our reading. My husband was interested in hearing the story, too, so we started it on a long trip we took to visit a sick family member (safely, of course) and liked it enough to continue to listen every evening for several days after we returned home.

I can see the appeal, especially for video game fans, of a virtual treasure hunt set by a dead man. It was delightful even for me, a person who knows little of the history of video games and classic sci fi movies and books.

Ready Player One? On to Player Two.

You'd think I'd love this: I've played joust and zork and programed in BASIC and have feelings about THACO. And, well, I think I would have loved this had I read it in 2011, when it first came out, but in the last 9 years my tolerance for self-absorbed men who don't see women as human beings has deteriorated. You see, I've been a computer scientist while being a woman. You know that guy who begrudgingly tolerates you as long as you mind your place while he objectifies women, don't challenge his litany of his geeky obsessions and self-aggrandizing behavior? What if that guy wrote a not very well-written book (plot holes you could drive a spaceship through!), in which a thinly veiled version of himself was the main character, who became rich and famous for his geeky obsessions and then he became a multimillionaire? Yeah...

I'm not a gamer but I do love dystopian and sci-fi books. This one fit that for me and I loved it. Man the imagination of this author is astounding. I want to watch the movie now but then don't want to

I didn't expect to enjoy Ready Player One half as much as I did.
The book is not without flaws. The endless lists and info dumps would definitely put me off had I been reading it. Fortunately, Wil Wheaton did an amazing job narrating the story and made even the most boring passages fun to listen to.
I recommend this book to every introvert and geek who never felt at home in the real world.

Read time: 3:30
Very different from the movie but quite enjoyable. Good little easy fluffy read that has some suspense. Climax fell a little flat, but not terribly so. I'm quite glad I read the book before the movie.

Se me ha hecho algo denso en algún momento de la historia pero ha estado bien.

So this was a re-read in preparation for Ready Player Two so it didn't have quite the W.O.W. (

The concept in Ready Player One is an 80's nerd styled contest masterminded by an 80's obsessed nerd billionaire programmer. There is one comment towards the end of the book about how this contest was an effort to have everyone on the planet share Halliday's (the millionaire) obsessions. No comments are made about the clear indications of an anti-social slightly narcissist belief that anyone with different obsessions is inferior. This speaks to a larger picture about absent self-reflection and emotional discussion – not that every story needs to be touchy feely, but it is nice occasionally to have something more than surface level “he did that, she did this”. Some parts of the book are intriguing and intelligent, but a large part is cringe-inducing wish fulfillment by a different 80's obsessed man, Ernest Cline himself. He is quoted as saying “as a teenager [during the 80's] I was obsessed with video games, John Hughes movies, and Dungeons and Dragons”. This wish fulfillment instrumental in the motivation of writing the novel is apparent in the plot as well. It leaks into the main character being the best at every contest component, and the book isn't large enough for these acts of superior heroism to not be tiring. That could be found in Kvothe, the protagonist of [b:The Name of the Wind 186074 The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) Patrick Rothfuss https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1515589515l/186074.SX50.jpg 2502879]. This is, in my opinion, the most significant flaw of the book, but not the only one. The romance between the main protagonist and the only significant female character (besides Aech) is awkward, patriarchal, and unbelievable. The minor characters are lifeless and uninteresting. The plot sometimes seems an excuse to wear every piece of 80's media not as an influence but as decorum. There are certainly good things about the book. The technology descriptions are interesting, even if they do cause a global decline of human conditions. The description of the OASIS as a whole is compelling and the representation of a dystopian mega-corporation an the manifestation as evil (while far from unique) fits the setting well. Overall, the book is a guilty pleasure at best if you grew up in the 80s or are a heavy video game enthusiast, just be prepared to groan when the aforementioned problems are at their worst.

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I was an '80s kids, so the pop culture element was fun, but that's all there is to it.

I will give it this, it was better than the movie!

I do not understand the hype. Nothing happens and there's a lot of plodding explication.

I want to live in the OASIS.

Any time I want a light easy read or need a pick-me-up I turn to Ready Player One. The words are always the same, but the adventures of Parzival, Art3mis, and Aech never disappoint me. I love all of it. The impossible odds, the love story, the puzzles. Every single bit is a piece of magic. The references to old video games, movies, television and everything else are like pieces of my past dripping off the page.

I cant' stress this enough. If you're wondering “should I read this book?” the answer is an emphatic YES! Everyone I've suggested it to has loved it.

The only complaint I have is that I know the answers to the puzzle as soon as I read the clue, but that's what happens when you read a book over and over.

If you want a special treat, check out the audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

Okay, here goes:

I read this book last year and gave it two stars. One star for the book, and one star for Will Wheaton managing to make it sound semi-interesting on audio. Then recently I stumbled across a podcast called “372 Pages I'll Never Get Back”, where the hosts read this book chapter by chapter and discuss all the nonsense. It made me realize the book is actually a zero and Wil Wheaton's narration bumps it up to one. It also inspired me to write a review, because the rating on this book is staggering.

This is the worst book I've ever read. I struggle to comprehend a book that could be worse. The characters suck, the story sucks, the background of the world makes no sense, it's...you know what? Just assume everything is negative. The thing that grated me the absolutely most though is this 17 year old kid that is evidently some sort of unspoken time-lord that, every few pages, has entire lists of things he has memorized, watched every episode of 50 times, read the entire bibliography of an author multiple times, memorized every word of a band's discography, all while playing video games “16 hours a day” and, later, “working ten hours a day”. Even the most lazy, haphazard math would render all this impossible. I can accept stupid- I've liked greater than zero Transformers movies. But some things are just too stupid.

And lots of people like this book, and fine, I don't get it, but people are allowed to like whatever they want. But you really shouldn't. This book seems to be written for nerdy gamer kids, and yet as a nerdy gamer who was once a kid, I find the whole thing outrageous. It's almost offensive to gamers, nerds, maybe even to kids. It's like a 13 year old just wrote some shit in two days and immediately published it. Where was an editor for this book? What could an editor possibly have taken out of this book to improve it? I would really like to know.

I don't mean to be a hater. I specifically didn't write a review of this book originally because I knew I would foam at the mouth just thinking of all the “classic” references to “classic” nerd stuff and how fucking cool this book is. So gnarly. So classic.

But this book is just too well received to remain silent. If you liked it, great, all the better for you. I only wish I could be right there with you, that the idea of this book didn't send me on an immediate Google search for ways to self-lobotomize. I'd like to meet Ernest Cline and just ask him a bunch of questions, starting with “How dare you?” And ending with “This is a big joke, right?”. Then I'd give him a big handshake for somehow gaming the system and making millions off this and his love for video games. Because no matter how bad I think this book is, no matter how much I want to bathe my eyeballs (ears?) in gasoline and strike up a match, Ernest Cline is an inspiration to us all that your dreams really can come true.

I absolutely loved this book. I loved the 80s references. I can't wait to watch the movie. Great sci-fi. Love it when the bad guys get it in the end!