Ready Player One (Movie Tie-In): A Novel

400 pages

Published Jan. 30, 2018 by Broadway Books.

ISBN:
978-0-8041-9013-8
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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 …

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Ready Player One est un magnifique hommage aux années 80, un autel dédié à l’apport de cette décennie, à ses jeux vidéos, ses films, sa musique, … Même si je les aies ratées de peu (allez quoi, j’y ai passé deux ans, c’est bon quoi !), j’avoue que j’ai une énorme affection pour cette période et que ses films ont quand même bercés mon enfance et adolescence. C’était donc un bonheur de se plonger dans ce livre et de rejoindre son personnage principal pendant ces quelques centaines de pages.



Le livre présente un futur qui n’est pas beau à voir, où l’être humain s’est enfermé dans une simulation virtuelle plutôt que de faire face aux problèmes du monde réel, une idée que j’ai tendance à trouver aussi terrifiante que plausible. Mais le livre arrive à faire la jonction entre la culture « geek » et une mise en garde. Loin …

Review of 'Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

A great trip to memory lane. If you were a teen in the 80's you will like this book but if you were a geek then you will love it. The movies, the video games, DnD, everything is in there. As a book i would give it 3 stars but the problem is that if you're like me a geek teen from that time is like you're enjoying it all again and the sweet moments you have remembered make it a 4 star book.

Review of 'Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

GRIPPING. Absolutely gripping. I couldn't put it down. This is not a book for young adults, but if you have any interest in video game culture and history at all, you should read this.

Also, it's thrilling. The review on my copy said "Willy Wonka meets Harry Potter," and it's true. They're protecting the world they love and bringing others to justice. They're chasing clues and scavenging items. They're marching through a nearly-real manifestation of the 1980s and commenting on its effects on the modern world.

Read this book.

Review of 'Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

Ready Player One is a celever romp through 80's geek culture, set in a moderately interesting world. While I was moved to finish it, I'm not sure how it will stand the test of time. In tone, it reminded me of Redshirts by Scalzi, which I think did a better job of integrating the nostalgic material into the story.

Review of 'Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

This was a very enjoyable and fast read. It had the same vibe as Little Brother (although LB has more political/ philosophical weight) with a protagonist who is uber-smart, geeky and struggling against social inequity and 'forces of darkness'. The adventures and puzzles he faces and the solutions he comes up with are all very satisfying and I didn't mind that it side-stepped the problem of how to fix up the real world portrayed in the book. Oh and for a person like me 'of a certain age' I loved all the Eighties references, in fact I'm digging out my DVD of War Games right now...

Review of 'Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

I was really looking forward to this. A lot of reviewers gave this really high marks, but I'm terribly unimpressed. The writing style is similar to much of the YA stuff out there, which isn't a good thing. Why would a YA book be written with cultural references which are from the decade before YAs were even born? I'm only halfway through, though, and I'm really hoping that it gets better. It seems like a quickly thrown together story with a lot of retro name dropping, but none of the 80s references are clever. Usually, it's just listing authors, movies or songs. It is impossible to suspend disbelief enough to get past the sloppy parts. How could the hero read every book by every author, see every episode of every TV show, watch every movie - multiple times, in many cases. Some throwaway comments like personal computer storage that holds …

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