Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”

OVERALL RATING: 9.7 /10

            STORY: 9/10

            CHARACTERS: 10/10

            THE FEELS: 10/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 10/ 10

PLOT: 9/ 10

 In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape

Review:
The book started laying out the world in the future. Where games that are played in virtual reality powered by terabytes of internet connection speed is very normal. In the story, everybody plays the game Oasis made by one of the geekiest and richest guy on the planet, Halliday.  Oasis is a virtual world that shelters real people who ran away from their real lives. The story anchors its plot the moment it reveals that Halliday died and all his fortunes are up for grabs to whoever player of the Oasis wins the last game he made inside his game Oasis, the hunt for his magical egg. The winner of the game will basically be the next Halliday, the owner of the biggest game on the earth and of course one of the richest guy living. The game for the hunt of Halliday’s magical egg are outlined by hunting three keys, the copper key, jade key and the crystal key. Once all three keys are collected, the player who did it first gets the front row seat in unraveling the location of the magical egg.

  The protagonist of the story is an orphaned boy named Wade. He is parentless and lives with his aunt in the place called The Stacks somewhere in I am not sure, Colorado I think? It has been a very long five years since Halliday’s death and nobody ever had a single clue of how to win his hunt ---- until Wade found the copper key.

This book will literally geek you out. The world Ernest Cline built in this book for his readers was made of 1980’s pop culture mix with high technology and very futuristic sci-fi ideas. This book was probably one of the most entertaining book I have ever read. The characters were all well developed, and the plot was not that perfect, but it was enough to impress the reader—including those with high standards.  This book will make you laugh, cry and reminisce your childhood memories.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a grail of pop culture. It is a book that brings you the excitement you got after watching the movies of Star Wars and Back to the Future. It is a book that makes you feel like you are experiencing the magic of Hogwarts. It is a book that mixes the epic stories of The Lord of the Rings and Stranger Things. If you want to read an awesome and memorable piece, then this book is ready for you. I hope you are too—player one.

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