Ready Player One

Title: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Type: Paperback
Read: 21st April - 10th May 2017
Rating: 5/5
Published: 5th April 2012 by Arrow Books

It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.

I LOVED this book. Recently i've had such a bad time with reading. I've not concentrated nor can i get into anything. But this book, blew me out of the water. Admitedly i'd never have picked this book up, ever if i'd not caught by chance last year, the filming of the movie within my home city of Birmingham. I was in town with work and there was lots of amazing things put up and barriers around to stop people from going near. Unfortunately for us, we had to walk through the set to get to an afternoon activity.

Ready Player One, is a futuristic book, although alot of it is set in the 80's. Human kind has pretty much distroyed the earth, and everyone pretty much escapes reality by living within the virtual world of the OASIS. But when the creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves an easter egg hunt. Within the game, the many planets and areas of the game, is some secret places. If the three magical keys are found, then the winner will eventually own all the fortunes and become the owner of the OASIS.

Halliday, the owner, died years ago... the hunt for the easter eggs have been tried for the last few years. When Wade accidently discovers the first key, life changes, his name is suddenly on the top of the scoreboard, everyone around the world knows the game is now on. It's real.  

We go through the game from Wades view. We see the IOI chase him, kill his family and how he tries to help his friends. It's an action packed book. The 80's references were great, as i could reconise some things. I could understand some of the references.

But even if you don't rememeber the 80's then this book is addictive just to keep up with Wade and his online friends who are both trying to save their own lives and that of everyone within the OASIS. Its fast, its really addictive. I wouldn't ever want the world to change to be anything like how it is in this book. It seems scary and unrealistic. It also felt like people had lost sight of reality. Online anyone could be anything and anyone they wanted to be, and they were.

I really can't wait to see how the film for this goes, because i'm hoping it to be so very 80's. 

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