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33 Reddit comments about Ready Player One:

u/gabwyn · 47 pointsr/scifi

Here are the recently published novels we've covered in the /r/SF_Book_Club (you can check out the survey results for these books from the sidebar over there):

u/LoganCale · 26 pointsr/SF_Book_Club

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

From Amazon:

> It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

>Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

>And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.

> For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century.

u/HollyLife · 23 pointsr/AskReddit
u/redditluv · 13 pointsr/AskReddit

Just finished Ready Player One

Holy shit was this entertaining.

u/granitehoncho · 6 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and more of a fun one Ready Player One

u/dol1house · 6 pointsr/dystopianbooks

Ready Player One

>Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday’s fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline.

u/thethermals · 5 pointsr/audiobooks

I loved Ready Player One, written by Ernest Cline and read by Wil Wheaton. It's Sci-fi, with many Fantasy elements.

I just finished this book last night, I listened to it at every moment it was so fun, engaging, interesting, exciting, new, GOOD.

Ready Player One book reviews on Amazon

Ready Player One on Audible

u/MechAngel · 5 pointsr/books

The Knife of Never Letting Go and the rest of the "Chaos Walking" trilogy is an amazing read, with plenty of awesome combat. It also brings up many modern ethical questions. I loved it.

He might also like Ready Player One which I am not quite finished with yet, but has really sucked me in. Even though there are several pop-culture references from the 80s, the reader doesn't need to be familiar with any of them to enjoy the story. I was born in 1983 and was too young to really have experienced much of it, but I'm enjoying the heck out of the book. I believe there is one passage where the main character alludes to masturbating, but content-wise, that's the only thing that a parent might consider questionable that I've come across so far.

Both titles have teenage fighter-type males as protagonists.

u/zaphod5 · 4 pointsr/truegaming

This is the background of "Ready Player One" which is a very good book and shows why some characters have almost moved into their virtual worlds entirely.

u/DonotheTurtle · 3 pointsr/readyplayerone

Well amazon (Canada) have some of the hardcover with the red cover 1st edition : Ready Player One https://www.amazon.ca/dp/030788743X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_pNR.AbYKK38MT

u/jenfolds · 3 pointsr/gaming

I know this is slightly off topic, but let me play Grandma here and suggest some books for you that have gaming influences which you might enjoy. Coincidentally, my nerd book club is reading these three for April:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson, and Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf.

Also, happy late birthday!

u/Legogris · 3 pointsr/ethtrader

\> If you've ever read the book [Ready Player One (Book)] or the movie [Ready Player One (Movie)] then you can get a feel for what I am envisioning.

I can highly recommend [Snow Crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash) (Neal Stephenson, 1992). If you enjoy it you may also want to check out [Cryptonomicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon) by the same author.

u/1point618 · 3 pointsr/SF_Book_Club

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u/hot_saucey · 2 pointsr/makemychoice
u/audiobibliofile · 2 pointsr/books

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

u/McKrakalaka · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X
The first time in a long time I have been so sucked in that after finishing int in 3 days, I wanted to go right back to it. Every child of the 80s I have shared it with, especially those who were extra-nerdy, loved this book.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1347860128&sr=1-1
If you want non-fiction, I finished this recently and it is hands down the best non-fiction book I have ever read. History filled with compelling narratives rather than dry dates and facts, Bryson brings the past to life - the story of how Halley convinced Newton to write the Principia even though Newton would rather have been searching for King Solomon's tomb for the dates of Christ's second coming or practicing alchemy is just one example of the wonderful narratives that fill this book.

u/justabaldguy · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Wouldn't it be funny is someone HAD a Ruger on their gift list? Wonder how that goes...

Anyway, I suppose of all the things on my list (besides the expensive stuff like mics and the Roku box) I really want to read Ready Player One so it's really desired. However, any of the 80 something albums I have listed are important too!

u/bakuretsu · 2 pointsr/pics

If anyone thinks this sounds cool, and can read, you should immediately get a copy of "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. One of the best reads I've had all year.

u/loganekz · 2 pointsr/books

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

u/venther · 2 pointsr/books

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Came out in August, 2011. Prodigies in the year 2044 get PhD's in pop-culture of the 1980's in order to save the greatest videogame ever made. Best entertainment value I've read since World War Z. I wrote Ernest Cline to tell him how much I loved it, and the man actually wrote me back. Fellow gunters, unite!

u/jrizos · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

this is gonna make your blood boil, as it did mine: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X

u/Lone_Sloane · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Right now, I'm impressed with Ready Player One .

u/chakrablocker · 1 pointr/news

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/030788743X/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&sr=1-1&qid=1395271273

Prime eligable products cost the same as the same product from another supplier plus shipping. Amazon basically builds in the shipping cost and claims that you're getting free shipping.

u/fingerflinger · 1 pointr/gaming

Have you read Ready Player One?

u/piratebroadcast · 1 pointr/gaming
u/FantasticBastard · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I think the internet will be far more ubiquitous. In the not too distant future the idea of having to sit down in front of a box with a mouse and keyboard to interact with the web will be considered quaint. This is already happening with the rise of smart phones and tablets, but those devices basically perform the same function but remove the unnecessary hardware.

The web will be more seamlessly woven into your everyday life. It will be embedded in the technology you interact with. Think Augmented Reality and Heads Up Displays, but on an accesible consumer level. It will be more experiential, possibly moving more towards a virtual reality. The VR that the book Ready Player One seems quite plausible.

u/Lygasm · 1 pointr/gaming

here is where you can buy it

u/SeriouslyLaughing · 1 pointr/pics

Hey Wil, how does it feel being an elected official in 2044?

u/synt4xtician · 1 pointr/funny

Then you are ready for this book, if you haven't read it already.

u/MrCrowley33 · 1 pointr/gaming

Umm. you do realize this is exactly how the book Ready Player One started right? if any of you havnt read it already. do yourself a favour. :). Pretty much, the majority if the planet is educated like this in the book.

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

u/jaekido · 1 pointr/gaming

All of you need to put down the controllers for a few hours and read this book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

u/Oxenfree · 1 pointr/sandiego

I see you're in about half of my subreddits too. Have you read "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline? It's probably the best Scifi book I've read in 10 years. http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X