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WIJFR: Ready Player One (minor spoilers)
I first heard about this book on the Books on the Nightstand podcast. I bought it a couple of years ago and it had been sitting neglected on my shelf up until a couple of days ago. Despite the rave reviews I saw on here, on Goodreads, and that the review I originally heard insisted it was a book for everyone, I wasn't sure I could get into all the video game and 80s pop culture references. I am happy that I was wrong and the reviews were right! I loved this book. The world pulled me into it right away, and I was rooting for the main characters from the very beginning. It made me think a lot about online life, and I thought his vision of the future was bleak but believable in that it had people basically spending all of their lives in a virtual reality world.
There were a LOT of references that I didn't understand, and that did get somewhat tiresome at times, but it didn't cause me to have a hard time following the plot at all. I found myself skimming some of the long descriptions, like the multiple page play-by-play of a single Pacman game. I also wish there had been a little more detail on the real world and how it got so bad. Overall though this was a great read!
Re: WIJFR: Ready Player One (minor spoilers)
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As for the long descriptions of Pac Man or whatever... I didn't mind them as I was listening to Wil Wheaton read them aloud with such passion and relish, that I found myself going along for the ride. (That might not have been the case if I had been reading it myself, though.)
Loved this book!
Sugar & Spice