Ready Player One: A Novel [B1792]

2012 PB with wear. Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix."-USA Today. A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune-and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he's beset by rivals who'll kill to take this prize. The race is on-and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Village Voice, Chicago Sun-Times. "Delightful . . . the grown-up's Harry Potter."-HuffPost. "An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart."-CNN.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This book made me feel so proud of being a nerd. It's exciting from start to finish. Check it out, specially of you like 80s music, games and movies."; "The best way to describe Ready Player One is that it's so much like a 90s adventure pure popcorn flick, and I say that in the best way possible. The plot is simplistic, the characters are mainly pretty one note despite some fleshing out in the latter stages of the book, but it is so much FUN to read."; "I read it because my boys read it multiple times & I wanted to see what they saw in it. I usually don't want to read books after I have seen the movie but this book was good. Good character development, fast paced and entertaining. My boys have good taste."