None of that is relevant when talking about "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline.
When my friend Scott gave me this book for Christmas I was a bit "a book?" Not because I don't like books or that I think books are bad presents, it was because I was uncertain if I would like the book. Just because the giver likes a book doesn't mean the receiver will. My first impression was that this book was going to be about some kid back in the 1980s who liked to play computer games. Boy, was I wrong. Set in the no too distant future of 2044, the major of the world's population prefer to spend time in an artificial reality that makes the Matrix look like an 8 bit Sega arcade game.
I cannot remember the last I enjoyed reading a book as much as this one. I have devoured the occasional book in my time - The Red Dwarf Omnibus springs to mind, along with "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" by Mitch Albom. The Red Dwarf book was mainly retelling the TV episodes with added fleshier bits (which were what I enjoyed), leaving me a bit cold about the book because I felt that there wasn't enough new material. Mitch Albom's book is far from a happy book, pulling on emotional heart strings, but it was still a great book to read.
"Ready Player One" was fun and exciting and full of so many nerd and geek references that I could relate to the central character scarily well. For anyone who knows anything about AD&D, Atari 2600's, Monty Python, or 80's pop culture, this book is for you :)
STATUS: 3/40 = 7.5%
