Ready Player One - Book Review

Yes, it's the book that is being adapted into a Steven Spielberg movie. "Ready Play One" is the debut book of author Ernest Cline in 2011. Let me start with the highest recommendation I can give a book: I read this book instead of sleeping at night, when I need to wake up at 5 in the morning to go to work.

The book describes a dystonian future in which there are too many people than the earth can bear, famine, wars and diseases are widespread and everyone want to simply escape from reality into the OASIS. A virtual reality that contains everyone's wildest dreams. The creator of the OASIS has passed away and will leave the control of his company and all of his money to the person who finds the Easter Egg hidden inside of the OASIS. The protagonist of the novel is Wade Watts, a high schooler who spends most of his time looking for the Egg. Since the creator of OASIS was obsessed with 80's pop culture, 80's pop culture is the most popular thing in Wade's world. I enjoyed this book even though I don't actually remember the 80's. However, Wade isn't the only one looking for the egg, almost everyone on the planet are looking for it. This will cause many conflicts and problem, and also brave friendships and shared values.

On the surface it's a fun book. It starts a bit slow with a lot of world building and then it shifts into high gear. It does explore the meanings and consequences of spending most of your time in a virtual reality, but it's not necessarily a cautionary tale. I would say that it is more of a cautionary tale about evil cooperates who have too much control in society.

I don't know what Steven Spielberg will do with this excellent book, but the trailer doesn't even scratch the surface of this great book. Really recommended for people who love science fiction and a bit of dystopias.

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Also the first song in the trailer is a remix for "World in My Eyes" by Depeche Mode, my favorite song, so I'm biased towards liking the movie.

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