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They were massive, with beach ball bellies and Neanderthal brows. They had freckle specked Popeye arms and flaming red hair.

They were full grown men in middle school with mustaches and sideburns. They liked to grab underweight kids by the neck and dangle them off the ground for entertainment. A new pizza place opened across the highway. The pizza was passable, but I wasn't there for the pizza.

When I walked in those doors I claimed sanctuary. It didn't take long for the owner to 86 the Hoover boys because he didn't want me to be interrupted putting quarter after quarter into this colorful black box called DEFENDER. If I were to get the high score the pizza guy would give me a slice. I soon learned that I could barter that slice for safe conduct onto my bus. It was worth the investment to buy a piece and watch the Hoover boys men tear the slice into pieces nearly coming to blows in the process, although I probably could have brought them roadkill with similar results.

The place also had Asteroids which I loved as well, but my first love was Defender. I would only play Asteroids if someone was already playing Defender. Even while immersed in blowing up interstellar asteroids I would catch myself looking longingly over at Defender.

Yes, it was a whirlwind romance born out of a need for survival. When I moved to high school I would stop in once in a while, but I'd grown as a person and Defender Our romance had gotten away from us somehow and it was time for both of us to move on to other people like Molly Ringwald.

Yes, I know it is embarrassing to admit it now, but I, like a large majority of boys and a good percentage of girls, had a crush on Molly. She wasn't the best role model for girls and I paid the price for her influence. The girls I dated in high school were that much more a pain in the ass because Molly Ringwald was their idol from the clothes they wore to the way they talked. Is that the time period when High Maintenance came into common usage? It was always a struggle trying to be cool in Kansas in the s.

Wade Watts, our hero, is an orphan. He was taken in by an aunt because she wanted the extra food vouchers. She doesn't share the food,a bit of a Dickens situation going on, which forces Wade to scramble for his own food supply. They live in these lovely stacked trailers on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. It was a collection of over five hundred individual stacks, all connected to each other by a makeshift network of recycled pipes, girders, support beams, and footbridges.

The spires of a dozen ancient construction cranes used to do the actual stacking were positioned around the stacks' ever expanding outer perimeter. Living in this world of would have been horrible except for a man named James Halliday who had invented OASIS a sprawling virtual utopia. You could live in the nastiest slag heap on the planet, but in OASIS, where you spent most of your time, you could build a paradise. When Halliday died he left a series of clues that created a world sensation.

The first person to figure out the clues wins the Halliday fortune Halliday was a fan of s pop culture and built his clues around his love of that era.

Those involved in the search have to become experts on everything s. The dialogue of every John Hughes film, the man who brought us Molly Ringwald, must be memorized. They have to watch all the television episodes from that era searching for clues to the puzzle. They have to know Devo lyrics and the words to every other s pop song. Needless to say, most of the population give up, and go back to other pursuits as the years pass without any breakthroughs. Wade is determined and with the help of his best friend Aech pronounced H they continue to sift through archival material looking for that clue that will lead them to the next clue.

When Wade finds the first clue and opens the first gate of the elaborate treasure hunt he becomes a world sensation, and draws the attention of the Sixers, the evil corporation intent on dominating OASIS.

During his quest, his online name is Parzival, Wade meets a girl. She wore a suit of scaled gunmetal-blue armor that looked more sci-fi than fantasy. Twin blaster pistols were slung low on her hips in quick draw holsters, and there was a long, curved elvish sword in a scabbard across her back. She wore fingerless Road Warrior-style racing gloves and a pair of classic Ray-Ban shades. Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-'80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way.

In a word:hot. I'm such a sucker for boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back. Cline mines this tried and true formula to perfection. The reader is shotgunned with s pop culture which I know has bothered some reviewers. I thought it was great. I've been listening to '80s music all week on my iPod because the book brought back memories of songs that I first heard on cassette tapes.

I wasn't ever a gamer. My brief fling with Defender has been the only time I've spent any significant amount of time playing video games. If you pine for the s you should definitely read this book. The plot was fascinating and kept the pages turning. This book went viral in the collecting world. I read somewhere that the print run was 15, which is reasonably small.

If a large percentage of the first printings were bought by libraries it could stay a much sought after collectible for years to come. If you have a first edition, first printing tuck it away somewhere safe. It could turn out to provide a really good return on your initial investment. View all 66 comments. Aug 18, Marie Lu rated it it was amazing Shelves: all-time-favorites. This reached into the gamer part of my heart and gave it a big piece of red velvet cake.

View all 12 comments. Jun 02, karen rated it really liked it. Video games, movies and music from the 80's! My teenage years were spent during the 80's. I look through the pictures that were taken at that time and realize we could have been called a cheesy generation.

This book saves us. This book makes us cool. I actually wanted to revisit those times after reading this book. It's not deep literature but it is pure fun. I smiled and cheered so many times reading Wade's story, even though you know how the book is going to end it is still a popcorn needing ride to get to that ending.

I'm not going to bother telling you about the books story because other reviewers have done a wonderful job of that. I'm gonna gif spam you! Every once in awhile I have to give the gif haters something to bitch about View all 92 comments. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

I think that sentence could be easily used to describe our current situation as well. They work there, they fall in love in there, they basically spend their entire life in that place because reality is too hard to bear. They only drink, eat and go to the toilet in reality, oh and of course they WORK in reality too. Well, they go to school in there as well. Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent.

It was the dawn of a new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame. But the hunt for that egg is not easy and everyone who wants to find it has to have an amazing knowledge of the pop culture of the 80ies! You just have to experience it on your own!

Which truth be told, was more than just a little awesome! Especially when they mentioned Pac-Man and Falco! Those two were so adorable and I just wanted them to be together. Parzival: Like your avatar, I suppose.

Except, you know, without the amor, guns, or glowing sword. No one ever looks anything like their avatar. Parzival: Are we going to have an online romance? And Aech? Aech was awesome as hell! Including you, pretty boy! I mean, did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?

Sorrento himself would probably see it, and so would his superiors. So I looked directly into the lens of the camera, smiled, and scratched the bridge of my nose with my middle finger. I just loved Parzival and his attitude! He might have been slightly insane but he certainly knew what he did! IOI was horrible and Sorrento their leader was even worse. Their influence was astounding and their ways and means more than just dubious… So considering it all I really enjoyed this book!

It was an easy and fun read and I can recommend it to everyone. View all 47 comments. I just kinda wanna cry right now. I'll have a proper review at some point, but I gotta let myself recover. Mar 07, Anne rated it liked it Shelves: dystopian , sci-fi , read-in Don't hate me But I'm pretty sure I didn't like this one as much as most of my friends. I'm guessing the 80's were super rad n' all to a lot of people, but I don't remember them being all that amazing.

Granted, I was only 10 in , but still I passed my middle school years during this tubular time period. Most of what I recall involved a mushroom cloud of hairspray centered around bangs , lots of plastic bracelets, and tons of really loud colors. Not that there's anything wrong w Don't hate me Not that there's anything wrong with that! All of this nostalgia is really wonderful, but I never liked the shows like Family Ties that the book mentioned, I didn't obsessively play any of the old video games although I do remember playing Centipede occasionally with my ONLY friend who could afford a console , and the music While I found some of the references kinda neat-o, that sort of thing wasn't enough to make me flail around and get all excited.

And, unfortunately, there wasn't enough meat to the characters to make me wanna cheer for Wade, Art3mis, or Aech. I mean, what the fuck was the point of the story? Is this a series? Is there another book that tells what happens next? If so, that could change my entire opinion! Well, not really. But I'd at least be willing to give book 2 a shot The whole concept and tributes featured in this book are exactly my thoughts and hobbies of the past, some of which still persist to this day.

The plot of RPO itself is actually really simple. Before his death, Halliday leaves a will that stated, if anyone is able to solve the puzzle he hid in OASIS, that person will receive all his wealth and power. This is literally the plot and where the story began for our main character, Wade, who has devoted his life into this treasure hunt.

First, almost all problems that appeared in the book were… how do I say this? Too convenient for Wade. The excessive details hurt the pacing a lot of times. The whole concept and world building of the book is something that resonates with me so much even though the concept itself is not actually original.

Even the way to access it via a VR consoles is the exact copy, the only differences is that. This picture featured only a tiny fraction of what medias were featured in the book, there are still so much more for you to find out for yourself if you decide to read it or watch it next year when the movie come out.

What made the book even better for me however is the theme that was explored, escapism. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. RPO provides a solution to a harsh reality and now, imagine if this solution really exists in our world and by that, I mean something as huge as OASIS. Mute people can speak in the game, anyone disabled can function perfectly, weak person can be strong, an introvert can be outgoing, the list goes on but most of all, you can actually make a living out of playing the game.

The point is, other than mandatory school and colleges, I spent most of my time escaping from reality with these entertainment. Guess which one I sacrificed? Good grades. Do I regret it? No, the thing is, my form of escapism shaped who I am today.

In my opinion, gaming and reading is one of the best forms of entertainment to increase your sense of empathy since you experienced thousands of different lives from different worlds and circumstances.

However, these hobbies do cause loneliness if you do them excessively and this, in my opinion is what the book tried to convey. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real. Gaming can be a really lonely hobby, especially once you finished a game and try to talk about it with someone.

The main reason is this, I have people to share my experience with, in the forms of reviews or discussions. In the end true happiness lies in our world. It induced a lot of nostalgia factors and again, a really great standalone and palate cleanser.

Thank you very much and I hope we will continue our escapism together in the future, in the right amount of course! View all 83 comments. May 29, emma rated it it was amazing Shelves: non-ya , favorites , diverse , sci-fi , owned , funny , that-setting-tho , comments , slump-worthy , couldn-t-wait-to-read.

Okay okay okay. Excluding the latter, I am not interested in any of those things. Was this book perfect? Sometimes it was dumb, or confusing, or slow, or overly complex, or not complex THIS. Sometimes it was dumb, or confusing, or slow, or overly complex, or not complex enough.

But it still deserves five stars. It was invented by this guy, James Halliday, who just up and DIED and left the sickest technological scavenger hunt ever thought of behind. And the winner? Though unfortunately fewer delicious descriptions of food. Give me 11 more books in it. Wait, the author has another book, right?! Oh man. There was a lotttt of worldbuilding. Like, a LOT a lot.

Pages and pages of it and a time. And the most information-heavy passages you can imagine. In terms of characters, we have a handful of main ones. I really, really, really, super-love our narrator, Wade. I would like to curl up inside of his head for forever, please and thanks.

Especially since his life is so goddamn interesting. I do have some complaints, though. For example, Wade is the only character I really feel any sort of way about.

Well, except for one thing. We hate you, unnecessary romance! This totally deducted from my enjoyment of the book - not enough to make me not love it, obviously, but significantly still - and I just was so MAD. Why did that have to be included? We get it, nerds deserve love too. So vanilla, when everything about this book was the total opposite of that. Not chocolate, though. What else, what else Oh yeah. One last thing. The ending lowkey sucked in comparison to the rest of the book.

It was kind of choppy and rushed. A lot of loose ends were left, IMO. It makes sense, kinda, since there were SO many ends to be tied, but still. I have no sense of what happened to the characters or the world. Also, I expected more of a Moral. Because this book follows a dystopian society attempting to escape from the repercussions of, well, our irresponsible actions through a video game. I expected more. I miss reading it already. Now, I say! View all 34 comments.

That seemed to be enough for me to immerse myself in the narrated version of Ready Player One. Heck, I enjoy reading about people who can do things I could never do. I could see myself getting drawn into the worlds of Oasis, finding my place in a specific area, and doing a really bad job of exercising enough and no Ready Player One Ready Player One 1 by Ernest Cline Author , Wil Wheaton Narrator I was born before the 80s and love certain, very involved RPGs, which I dive into over and over.

I could see myself getting drawn into the worlds of Oasis, finding my place in a specific area, and doing a really bad job of exercising enough and not spending enough time with family and the outdoors. But then, this world of is so different from our world now and not in a good way, despite the giant leaps in technology that the story portrays.

I guess I came away from this story, so very glad that I live now, that I can go outside and spend time with plants and animals and have a life that is not the life that the main character lives. I just jumped right into this story, with the help of Wil Wheaton's fantastic narration. Wade Watts escapes his sad, ugly present and future not much different from the future of others and sadly maybe better than a lot of folks can hope for by living most of his life as his avatar, in the virtual worlds that come by plugging into OASIS.

Because of his obsession with the creator of OASIS, James Halliday, Wade is ready for the challenge when Halliday dies and announces that the person who can find his easter egg, in a massive game that he's created, will inherit Halliday's fortune. Halliday died several years earlier and we meet Wade when he is seventeen and finally cracks one of the first riddles. Wade, as his avatar, becomes one of the most important people in the world, with his discovery. Now he's famous, people want to kill him, be his friend, be him, and time is running out, as other top Halliday geeks are chasing the coveted easter egg.

Published August 16, View all 61 comments. Honestly, read this. Just do it. View all 7 comments. Shelves: novel , romance , video-games , military , science-fiction , religion , espionage , humor , manga , politics.

However, since "geek" is the new black these days, s WOW!!! However, since "geek" is the new black these days, so maybe you would consider to give it a shot to the book. But trust me, if you didn't born in the 70s or early 80s, so being able to live all the things that were "cool" then, well, or if you weren't interested to read about "the past", well, you won't understand or enjoying several if not all of the references made here, that they're not the story per se, oh yes!

There is a story! But maybe you won't enjoy it the same. Therefore, I can't deny the advantage of being a geek, specially raised in the now classic time known as "The 80s", to understand almost all references and stuff that it's commented on the narrative.

However, honestly I think that even you aren't a geek per se, if you are looking for a good novel in the dystopian genre with young brave heroes battling against a powerful corporation determined to rule society, well, I am sure that you will be able to enjoy quite enough the general core of the storyline.

While it's almost impossible that a novel can coincide with our own personal favorites of 80's and 70's, I thought to quote some of mine along the review. If you don't get them, don't worry, they're not relevant to the review itself. Just indulge me. I feel the need. The need for speed! While on the novel is stated that, Wade Watts, the main character thinks that God doesn't exist and even, James Halliday, the key trigger of the story, is an atheist.

I really think that religion is a strong issue in this novel. Wade a. Parzival didn't believe in God and therefore he doesn't read The Bible , BUT he believes in Halliday and he reads with passion the Anorak's Almanac , reaching the point of knowing almost anything about Halliday's life and his tastes on films, TV, music, books, etc So, basically he changed the name of his raw human necessity of a god or a higher power in which to believe on.

Even it's amusing to notice a moment where Wade calls the name of the deity in Conan's stories, since he is an "atheist", he "can't" claim that his luck was because the common perception of god. However, not matter the name that you choose, in the moment that you acknowledges that your life may be affected by the hand of a superior power, well, it's non-relevant which name you opted to use.

God is God. Another religious evolution in the story is another raw impulse in human beings Halliday, with the creation of his Easter's Egg contest, he acomplishes that a whole generation even severals of it became obssesed with his life and his personal tastes, influencing the way of thinking and speaking of all those interested to get the ultimate prize.

Wade goes to that too, since he is able to reach positions that nobody else has ever done before and he is able to taste how is like to be a god and that thousands of strangers get interested to follow his life and his tastes.

Darmok and Jalad Any person has tastes and opinions, and most of the cases, we are sure that we are right about them, so we expressed them and in the bottom of our souls, we are convinced that we have excellent taste in things and that the rest of people should read, watch and hear all that it's of our preference, and therefore, they will become as "wise" and "illuminated" as us.

And the ambiance of this novel is almost just like how we are living now. Certainly we don't have a virtual universe so advanced as the OASIS, but internet, the social networks, blogs, forums, etc Ironically, in the 80s, our circle of influence was absurdly limited, we barely were able to express it to our closest friends and family, but now?

We can reach any human being with access to internet. The generational gaps occur mainly because old people aren't interested to know about new suff, while young people aren't interested to know about old stuff. As simple as that. It's amusing to see in this novel that a LOT of young people in the future of are eager to learn about "old" stuff just because there is a huge prize involving money, and guess what?

Many of them starting to find out how cool of that "old" stuff is. Too bad that there is have to be an incentive of money to make them to realize that. I think that I am lucky since I don't discriminate stuff for the era when it appeared. Why do I have to choose just "my" era? Why do I have to limit myself? I have "my stuff" of the generation where I grew up, but I do my best all the time to learn about stuff of before I even born and I do my best to keep up with new stuff.

Only my death will set how many stuff I will be able to enjoy in my entire life. Each era has its charm and I am enjoying all of them. Gathered together from the cosmic reaches of the universe — here in this great hall of justice - are the most powerful forces of good ever assembled.

In the 80s and before , our social experiences were quite identical in our circles, we watched the same local TV shows, the same movies, etc So, nowadays is almost impossible to find a single other soul watching, reading and hearing the very same stuff that we do. We'll have intersection points, several of them, but at the end, each of us, we are walking our own paths of entertainment.

Even before, we innocently thought that the "good stuff" was the same for all the rest of people. Now, we have certainty that a thing naming book, film, TV show, song, etc And that's okay. We are all different. Only we have to learn to respect the opinion of others, in the understanding that we do the same.

Keep on pushing me baby Don't you know you drive me crazy You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline. Referring to the novel itself, I must point out that I found some of the challenges repetitive decreasing the excitement or reaching each of the three legendary gates.

Also, I think that the author didn't want that anyone would be able to guess the riddles, I mean, this is not like a detective mystery novel that you may not notice the clues in clear sight, but they are there, you just didn't giving them importance, no, in here, some of the riddles are solved showing knowledge of elements in the environment of the story that they are impossible for you to know its existence.

And getting back the "religious" angle in a way of speaking, there are a lot of scenes where you met a "Deus ex machina" element, where any character has a key gadget, never mentioned before, that it's perfect to solve the trouble. Not always is like that.

However, I noticed enough instants like that, just to mention it. At the end, the novel has an engaging narrative style that keeps you entertained all the way, marvelling about this extraordinary future with all its wonders and dangers. Highly recommended. Choose your own life, enjoy each moment of it and don't worry about others think. People of good will and true friends are going to be happy for you not matter what you do in your lives and they will respect you too.

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The person who finds the prize is promised riches and as more people come in to play, it becomes a fight to the end as the gunters hunt for the prize while making their way through game after game.

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