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2025 Reading Goal

29% complete! larcher has read 7 of 24 books.

Ernest Cline: Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) (Paperback, 2011, Crown Publishers) 4 stars

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American …

I enjoyed the movie alright, but liked the book more. More 80s, more retro gaming and compu, great stuff. If I had read the book first and known what was missing from the movie, I don’t think I would have enjoyed it as much. Wil Wheaton was a good choice as narrator for the audio book.

Dave Eggers, Dave Eggers: You shall know our velocity! (2003, Vintage) 3 stars

In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two …

I don't know. I didn't get it. I wanted to call it a "coming of age" story, but I'm not sure they learned anything, didn't really grow up. Parts of it were interesting, there was some passages where I enjoyed the writing, the language. But mostly I'm not sure what the point was.