Comments on: Ready Player One

By: SDG

SDG — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:18:35 +0000

Just read Armada this weekend. Different story from Ready Player One, but the author hits a lot of the same references. Its a pretty fun story as well.

Now I’m wondering if Ernest Cline can write a book not so reliant on 80′s pop culture though. His 3rd book is in the works, we shall see.

By: SDG

SDG — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:10:38 +0000

There was no way I could not read it after seeing a cover like that.

Maybe when I finish it, I’ll look for the Audio Book to read again. Wil Wheaton is the perfect choice as reader.

By: SDG

SDG — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:04:59 +0000

I’m slightly younger, and wasn’t ever into D&D, however so many of the references I get anyway from having an older brother who was into a lot of this stuff.

I got the reference to what the 2nd gate was referring to almost immediately, even though I haven’t actually reached the solution in the book yet.

By: RL

RL — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:34:14 +0000

If you were born a few years earlier or later than 71, the book will still be good, but probably wont have that spooky deja vu feeling…

It really brought back memories…

By: RL

RL — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:21:31 +0000

http://www.ernestcline.com/

I like this guy…
And he owns a Delorean.

By: RL

RL — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:10:26 +0000

I grew up in Oklahoma, where the book starts out – in the 80′s… I keep meaning to research the background of the author, because it reads like we may have crossed paths…

I found out about it when a childhood friend messaged me on facebook saying:

Have you read Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline? Fucking insane, almost like we commissioned our own private SciFi novel.

Only about a quarter of the way in, and a kid from a trailer park in Oklahoma City is playing Joust against an old D&D demon in a virtual world I. The year 2040. Drop whatever you are doing and read this book!

This book Ready Player One just sucked me in and spit me out like a true nerdgasm. Holy shit.

I got it on audible (read by Wil Wheaton) for a long drive I was taking- I found myself finishing many sentences before Wil completed them…

Really creepy-

Very good book, I havent finished it but if you grew up in that era and were the kind of kid that downloaded a random dialer for his atari 800 so he could find open lines like David did in War Games… then the book is for you…