Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Paperback, 374 pages

English language

Published July 9, 2011 by Crown Publishers.

ISBN:: 9780307887436
Goodreads:: 9969571

(2 reviews)

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.

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AvonVilla@ramblingreaders.org reviewed Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline

Too much nerd-sugar, but I consumed it anyway

4 stars

I was there, I lived it all. Except for Journey. That should be erased from history. Where's your synthesiser, where's your drum machine? Devo would have been a better representation of that era, but they weren't as commercial and processed. That aside, it's an engaging story, very good fun SF. My instinct from the start was that it was pulpy and shallow, and thinking further about it reinforces that first impression, but I enjoyed it on its own terms..

George reviewed Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline

Lightweight romp through Nostalgia

4 stars

An enjoyable and quick read. Nostalgia is bound together by a fairly predictable plot line. I wanted to go back and create a playlist of all the music mentioned, but I borrowed the book from a co-worker and needed to return it.

Subjects

Regression (Civilization)
Utopias
Virtual reality
Fiction
Puzzles