Ernest Cline: Ready Player One (Italian language, 2017)
448 pages
Italian language
Published Nov. 7, 2017
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters.Ch. 20 In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. A film adaptation, screenwritten by Cline and Zak Penn and directed …
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters.Ch. 20 In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. A film adaptation, screenwritten by Cline and Zak Penn and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released on March 29, 2018. A sequel novel, Ready Player Two, was released on November 24, 2020.
Unimaginative, predictable & juvenile. No point in repeating what others have said, I wholeheartedly agree with William Cline's review.
Haven't had this much fun reading a book in ages. Couldn't put it down. Put off reading it for a long time since everyone just talked about all the 80s references and I figured I'd need to get them to enjoy the book, but that definitely wasn't the case.
This has been on my "currently reading" list since December 2012. I've given up and restarted it on and off since then. It was such a struggle to get through. I think the problem is that it irritates the same parts of my brain as The Big Bang Theory - it's supposed to appeal to nerds like me, but it's such a shitshow that I find myself getting annoyed. In place of any character development or story, we're treated to a never-ending string of "like that thing in $nerd_reference". Right up until the last chapter. "It was a hedge maze. With the same layout as the one in Labyrinth". This is cheap, lazy writing at its worst. Dan Brown, all is forgiven.
So much fun! And even though I think the ending was beyond cheesy (I guess in a John Hughes kind of way), I really enjoyed this.
I loved this book. I loved all the references to the 80's games and movies. I thought the story was very cool. I couldn't put it down.
In the end, Cline seems only to yearn for a world where knowing some geeky bit of trivia about your favorite piece of pop culture has actual worth, necessary in a life or death situation. Still, the story is fast-paced and action packed, and there are hints here and there of deeper themes, including questions concerning reality and what we consider to be most important in life. A quick, fun read, definitely worth the time.
Literally one of the best books I've read in years! This book is filled with nostalgia of an age I didn't actually experience, but have always looked back on fondly. I would like nothing more than for
this book to be made into a movie, but I don't think that will ever happen as it has so many references and appearances by things that actually exist.
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This is quite a fun story, easy reading. It's quite an 80's movie and game nostalgic trip, which is perhaps a little overdone. But if you can relate to Zork and WarGames references, you'll appreciate this too.
I had a lot of fun reading this wonderful homage to 80s computer games, movies and pop culture in general. If you were playing your first games in the 80s this is a must read! Oh yes and I also enjoyed the story ;) And it's not only the nerdy 80s but there are fun references more modern nerd hobbies like the Whedonverse and MMOs.
Fun read.
I think gamers will really like this good. Non-gamers, not so much. There is a lot of nostalgia in here for people who were alive in the 80s and grew up with the games, movies, and music the book references.
Pretty awesome. It's the story of a kid who lives in a vaguely futuristic universe where the people spend most of their day in OASIS, some kind of Second Life with a virtual reality interface. OASIS founder, James Halliday, died, and when he died, a giant treasure hunt started. First prize: Halliday's inheritance. And James Halliday's drug of choice was the 1980s. So it's a pretext to go back to the 80s geek culture, it's well made, it's very funny, and I liked it a lot. On the other hand, I'm clearly in the target audience :)
''As soon as the robot was clear of my hangar, I shouted 'Change Marveller!' into the control bracelet (the voice commands appeared to work only if you shouted them).''
This is hardly great literature, but I'm not sure I've had more fun reading a book, like, ever. As a guy who grew up in the 1980s playing D&D, watching Wargames, and trying to flip Asteroids on the Atari 2600, this story was a direct pipeline into my teenage brain. I just loved it.
