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title = "Ready Player One - Ernest Cline"
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date = 2015-03-24
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "ernest cline", "reviews", "scifi"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one):
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IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts
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really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the
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OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this
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world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession
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with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and
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fortune to whoever can unlock them.
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{{ stars(stars=5) }}
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**80s, Back to Back**
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First, small spoiler: imagine a world were Second Life won and reached its
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wildest dream. A world created by an 80s aficionado. Imagine there is a prize
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hidden somewhere. Imagine the locks are all based on 80s stuff. That's the
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book.
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Now, if you're a children of the 80s, this will be a great ride. You'll find a
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bunch of stuff you remember appearing everywhere. And you'll remember what it
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was and it will be fun.
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All this you can read in all other reviews.
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The story suddenly drops mid book before returning to the old 80s memorabilia
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trip. A couple of pages could remove one hundred and the book would be a lot
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more fun (and that's why I'm not giving it 5 starts).
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Some things will piss you off: the "evil" guys are one dimensional. The
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romance is dull. The hero never gets in a corner he doesn't find a way out.
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The fights are too colorful. It may not sound so, but it is annoying.... Till
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you realize 80s movies were just like that.
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It's really a fun book and I never knew I could read that fast.
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