Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
by Ernest ClineMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Kindle Edition, 386 pages
Published August 16th 2011 by Crown
Source: Purchased @ Kindle Store
Utterly, utterly amazing! This is only January but I'll be hard-pressed to find a book that will pass this as the number one book of my year! There are thousands of reviews of this so I'll come at this a little differently. I actually read Armada first, when it came out and I enjoyed it to a point, but now I really understand why readers were underwhelmed with it as a second book. Honestly, Cline will probably always find his future writing compared as never quite reaching the heights of this, his first novel. He genuinely hit the mark with his first novel. This doesn' just have lots of eighties references, the whole thing is virtual immersion into eighties geek culture. Having come of age in the eighties myself, and now thinking of them as my glory days I sooooo get this book and pretty much remembered playing every Atari game, Arcade game, freaking over every song, loving every movie, TV show, etc. My best friend even had a ColecoVision! Just a fantastic story and I absolutely cannot wait for the movie! So glad it's a Spielberg vehicle! Just awesome!
So you liked this one :-) haha, brilliant exciting review Nicola. I'm sure this will make your top 10 list for 2016. Another I guess I will be adding to my TBR list. I remember some 80's stuff more from my brothers who were 10 and 12 years older then me but still good memories.
ReplyDeleteWhile this book may seem like it is about an innocent topic, there are many moral flaws. It is shocking to me that this book is so highly rated when it has an anti-religious sentiments, swearing, virtual sex and masturbation. Disgusting and immoral. I would never recommend this book to Catholics.
ReplyDelete@TM - Some of us Catholics are mature enough to read books with worldviews different than the ones we personally live. If I only read fiction that presented a Christian worldview, my insight would be very limited.
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