Title: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Narrator: Wil Wheaton
ISBN: 9780307913142
Audiobook Length: 15 hours, 46 minutes
Genre: Science Fiction
Origins: Mine. All mine.
Release Date: 16 August 2011
Synopsis:
“It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune — and remarkable power — to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved — that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life — and love — in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?”
This one is just as good the second time around. It may even better perhaps because you can pay attention to the details you might have missed as you raced to the finish line to find out what happens.
David has been looking for something to read. He recently finished Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore and liked it for the most part. I put this one on his nightstand thinking it might “stick.” We’ll see!
Let me know if it sticks!
Fun! I do think this would be good for a second read. I’m re-reading the Queenie Hennessy book for club this week. I am discussion leader – wish me luck. Did you ever get to this, yet?
It was a great second read. I have not gotten to the Queenie book yet. It is on my list!
I LOVED this book!
I do too. It holds up extremely well upon re-reads too!
This is an interesting premise. I may give this one a go. 🙂
This was one of my all-time favorite novels when it was first released. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
This is definitely one I need to re-read or re-listen to! I adored it the first time around, and I bet it really would be better the second and third and fourth! 😉
It definitely is. Such an amazing book!