Friday, April 24, 2015

Ready Player One

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, 374 pages


When James Halliday, creator of the OASIS, the endless virtual world ever created, dies, he announces to the world that he has left an Easter Egg somewhere in OASIS and the first person to find it inherits pretty much everything he has, including ownership of OASIS itself.  Millions of people, who call themselves gunters, start looking, including a corporation called IOI, which controls most of the Internet access in the world.  IOI, whose hunters are called SIxers, wants to change the OASIS and most of the world agrees that the changes they want to make don’t fall in line with Halliday’s vision.  Many years go by without anyone having any luck and until a teen named Wade uncovers the first key and clears the First Gate.  Soon others are following, including the Sixers, who plan to kill not only Wade’s avatar in the game, but Wade himself if he refuses to cooperate with them.  This is one of the best books I’ve read, ever.  I would give this to anyone that likes any type of fantasy or science fiction.  In fact it will probably become the first book I would tell people about.  I completely loved it.

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