Okay, I usually don't recommend a book until I finish it...and this book may just be a bust at the end...but at the 75 page mark...I'm in love.
The book is Ready Player One by Ernie Cline...and I didn't even read the description, I read author blurbs and this one by John Scalzi sold me:
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"Imagine that Dungeons and Dragons and an '80s video arcade made hot, sweet love, and their child was raised in Azeroth. If you're not already experiencing a nerdgasm at the thought, I don't want to know you."
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This just solidified the deal:
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Ready Player One expertly mines a copious vein of 1980s pop culture, catapulting the reader on a light-speed adventure in an advanced but backward-looking future. If this book were a living room, it would be wood-paneled. If it were shoes, it would be high-tops. And if it were a song, well, it would have to be 'Eye of the Tiger.' I really, really loved it."
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I'm an 80's geek, I love everything 80's pulp culture. And this has it in droves...it's really really REALLY taken me back. From the Atari 800XL, to John Hughes, Back to the Future, A-Team, GI Joe....it's amazing.
It's all built around this tech giants last will and testament...he has no heirs, so he's basically created his own "easter egg", whoever finds the golden key wins his fortune. And was also homage to the Atari game "Adventure" which featured the very first "easter egg". Atari wasn't in the habit of giving credit to the person that developed the game, and he wrote in his own in a hidden panel of the game.
If you are an 80's geek...I think you'd enjoy it...it's not going to be a great piece of literature, but so far it's taken me back to my D&D days, and seeing those funny little dice for the first time...as well as Saturday morning cartoons and such....this my replace Enders Game as my favorite book.