The real world is not great for 18 year old Wade Watts in the year 2044. Luckily he has school issued access to the world’s first (and greatest) virtual reality interface, OASIS, where he can hang out with friends, attend school, and get away from his sad life outside of OASIS. When the 1980’s obsessed creator of OASIS dies, it is announced that he will be leaving his entire fortune and control of OASIS to the first player to make it all the way through his contest. This contest quickly becomes life or death for many players including Wade when it is also announced that IOI, an evil corporation deadset on monetizing OASIS, plans on winning the contest. Wade is confident in his knowledge of the distant past to win the contest and keep OASIS a refuge for others like him, so long as IOI doesn’t kill him first.
This book is an adventure and is truly unputdownable if you are into video games and it won the Alex Award for adult books that especially appeal to teens. There's a fan art tumblr in existence if you so choose: http://readyplayerone.com/ but MOST excitingly (at least to me) is that Steven Spielberg is working on the movie adaptation set to release in March of 2018! Given all of the tech in this book, it is going to be fascinating to see it on the big screen.
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