Ready Player One by Ernest ClineMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I LOVED this book. And having Wil Wheaton read it was just the cherry on top.
This is the story of Wade, an 18-year-old computer nerd, whose entire life is spent in the OASIS, an online virtual reality world where much of the world spends there time, as the real world is a miserable place of fuel shortages, global warming, and unemployment. When the creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves his entire fortune to the person who can find the Easter Egg hidden in the OASIS. Wade, along with hundreds (thousands?) of others join the quest to find the Egg.
The creator of the OASIS grew up in the 1980s, so much of what the Egg Hunters (Gunters) study to figure out the location of the egg is 80s "stuff:" music, movies, literature, computer games. As a child of the 80s myself, it was great fun to hear references to all that stuff I'm familiar with.
This book combines a dystopian world with MMORPGs, 80s notalgia, adventure, suspense, and kick-ass fun. There's also a little bit of nerdy romance.
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