Check out "Ready, Player One."

Rizla · 07-07-2014, 12:10 PM

For those that haven't read it,

http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-O.../dp/0307887448

Awesome sci-fi book based around retro video games.

HarryT · 07-07-2014, 12:20 PM

There was a long thread about this book a while ago. It is indeed a great book.

EDIT: Old thread is here.

tm3 · 07-11-2014, 12:32 PM

i don't care for sci fi, but i really enjoyed Ready Player.

also sci fi, and even better, is American Gods.

Gazella · 08-01-2014, 07:32 AM

I've read it about a year ago. I really enjoyed it. I can't wait for the movie adaptation.

MickeyC · 08-02-2014, 05:52 AM

Just started it yesterday and, so far, very good.

Dazrin · 08-05-2014, 03:54 PM

Excellent story! I finished this afternoon and I really enjoyed this from front to back. I missed a few of the references (probably hundreds), but those I did catch were great.

MickeyC · 08-10-2014, 05:04 PM

Just finished and it was a great read!

taosaur · 08-10-2014, 10:14 PM

Ready Player One was a lot of fun. I read it maybe a year after it came out, and along with the intentionally retro elements, the whole book felt like it came from an earlier time. The notion of the internet becoming a "virtual world" may have been a big part of it. As someone who explored Second Life and MMOs in the mid-aughts, the whole idea just has a "futures past" feel to it, like the cigar-shaped rockets and "homes of the future" of the mid-20th-century. It just seemed like a future someone would have imagined in the late '90s or early aughts.

Granted, it was more a wild flight of fantasy than anything genuinely speculative

07-07-2014, 12:10 PM	#1
Rizla Member Retired Posts: 3,183 Karma: 11721895 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Nook STR (rooted) & Sony T2	Check out "Ready, Player One." For those that haven't read it, http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-O.../dp/0307887448 Awesome sci-fi book based around retro video games.

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07-07-2014, 12:20 PM	#2
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	There was a long thread about this book a while ago. It is indeed a great book. EDIT: Old thread is here.

07-11-2014, 12:32 PM	#3
tm3 Groupie Posts: 174 Karma: 56678 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3	i don't care for sci fi, but i really enjoyed Ready Player. also sci fi, and even better, is American Gods.

08-01-2014, 07:32 AM	#4
Gazella Wizard Posts: 1,705 Karma: 4619474 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: Kindle Scribe, Kindle Paperwhite	I've read it about a year ago. I really enjoyed it. I can't wait for the movie adaptation.

08-02-2014, 05:52 AM	#5
MickeyC Grand Sorcerer Posts: 16,731 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3	Just started it yesterday and, so far, very good.

08-05-2014, 03:54 PM	#6
Dazrin Wizard Posts: 2,729 Karma: 75825105 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: PDXish Device: Kindle Voyage, various Android devices	Excellent story! I finished this afternoon and I really enjoyed this from front to back. I missed a few of the references (probably hundreds), but those I did catch were great.

08-10-2014, 05:04 PM	#7
MickeyC Grand Sorcerer Posts: 16,731 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3	Just finished and it was a great read!

08-10-2014, 10:14 PM	#8
taosaur intelligent posterior Posts: 1,562 Karma: 21295618 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ohiopolis Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2, Samsung S8, Lenovo Tab 3 Pro	Ready Player One was a lot of fun. I read it maybe a year after it came out, and along with the intentionally retro elements, the whole book felt like it came from an earlier time. The notion of the internet becoming a "virtual world" may have been a big part of it. As someone who explored Second Life and MMOs in the mid-aughts, the whole idea just has a "futures past" feel to it, like the cigar-shaped rockets and "homes of the future" of the mid-20th-century. It just seemed like a future someone would have imagined in the late '90s or early aughts. Granted, it was more a wild flight of fantasy than anything genuinely speculative

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