Ready Player One (Paperback)

It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.

Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.

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Fri, 1 Jun 2018 | Review by: Robert S.

Terrible book

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Wonderful book

Thu, 7 Mar 2019 | Review by: Samantha W.

I enjoyed this book immeasurably, I have read it twice and feel that the author's treatment of a dystopian future was skilfully handled. What I loved about it is that it paints a bleak picture of the future, but the main characters' desire to overcome difficulty lends purpose and hope, the bleakness is offset by the reality painted by the oasis. In my opinion this is a brilliant read, and is near the top of my favourite books of all time.

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