{"id":13614,"date":"2011-11-04T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2011-11-03T08:40:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:40:45","slug":"ready-player-one-by-ernest-cline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/ready-player-one-by-ernest-cline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready Player One by Ernest Cline"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ready Player One<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ernest Cline is set in the year 2044 when technology has reached a peak and people don’t interact much in the real world anymore.\u00a0 Instead, they interact in the OASIS, a virtual reality\u00a0utopia\u00a0where you can be whoever and whatever you want.\u00a0 Created by wealthy programmer James Halliday, the OASIS has become the real world to many people, since the actual<\/em> real world\u00a0is in shambles following the great energy crisis.\u00a0 After Halliday’s death, a video will is released with a challenge:\u00a0 whoever can find the hidden “Easter egg” that Halliday left in the OASIS will inherit his company and his entire fortune.\u00a0 The hunt quickly becomes an obsession for the whole world, including teenager Wade Watts.\u00a0 Wade has lived in a trailer with his drugged-out aunt ever since the death of his parents and has studied Halliday’s life relentlessly in hopes of figuring out\u00a0the clues Halliday left behind\u00a0in order to find the Easter egg and create a better life for himself.<\/p>\n

\"\"If you like advenuture and quest stories,\u00a0Ready Player One<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a really fun and unique one, since it basically all takes place inside a video game.\u00a0 It’s especially fun if you have fond memories of the pop culture of the 1980s.\u00a0 Halliday was obsessed with ’80s pop culture and included a lot of it in his clues, so all the best movies and video games of the decade are very well represented.\u00a0 It’s also really fun as a fan of “geeky stuff” to hear pretty much all of your favorite things\u00a0referenced (I\u00a0couldn’t help but get\u00a0excited that Wade’s OASIS character was riding around in a Firefly-class spaceship).<\/p>\n

The book also has a lot of suspenseful moments as Wade tries to become the one to find the Easter egg.\u00a0 One of the biggest corporations in the world, called IOI, has entered the quest for the egg\u00a0in\u00a0an effort to gain ownership of the OASIS and start charging for use of\u00a0it.\u00a0 Wade and his friends (including love interest Art3mis and his mysterious best friend Aech, neither of whom Wade has ever met in person) are racing to beat IOI to the Easter egg in order to preserve the OASIS that they have known and loved for so long.\u00a0 Overall,\u00a0Ready Player One<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is an inspiring story about the little guy trying to overtake Goliath and make a better life for himself and the people around him. It’s very affirming for fans of “geek culture”, and it teaches that being yourself and having a little perseverence can get you pretty far.\u00a0 And of course, it’s a\u00a0really fun story that I would highly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is set in the year 2044 when technology has reached a peak and people don’t interact much in the real world anymore.\u00a0 Instead, they interact in the OASIS, a virtual reality\u00a0utopia\u00a0where you can be whoever and whatever you want.\u00a0 Created by wealthy programmer James[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1773,312],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-computer-fiction","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3xA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13788,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}