Ready Player One
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Ready Player One
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Narrated by:
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Wil Wheaton
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By:
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Ernest Cline
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
The book behind the major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
It's the year 2044 and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty and disease are widespread.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of 10,000 planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late 20th century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.
Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.
If you loved Ready Player One and can't wait for more, check out Armada, Ernest Cline's latest geek masterpiece!
©2011 Ernest Cline (P)2012 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
Editor reviews
Earth’s future is bleak in the gripping sci-fi fantasy audiobook Ready Player One, written by the brilliant Ernest Cline and narrated by American actor Wil Wheaton. Set in the near future, most of the human race have locked themselves into a virtual reality to escape the planet that the past generations had destroyed. Within this virtual existence lies the answer to infinite riches and Wade Watts spends every second on the treasure hunt. It is a frenzied race with countless players, all infected with desperation. The danger is intense and will affect them all.
Critic reviews
"Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut." (Independent)
"Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart." (CNN)
"Ernest Cline’s novel deserves to be a modern classic." (SciFiNow)
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- Nina
- 24-01-17
80's House of Surprises
What a gem! This book is humorous, tense and geeky. If you're a fan of computer games you will enjoy it a lot.
The story takes you into the 80's world of games, films and music. There are a countless number of references which will keep you interested and entertain till the end.
I couldn't help myself from trying to second guess what is going to happen next, but the author did a brilliant job of keeping surprises coming right up till the last pages.
The characters are likeable and put up a good fight against, well, that would be telling now, wouldn't it...
I so enjoyed it! This book is well worth a credit and there is a good potential for the story to turn great on the big screen.
Wil Wheaton gives a good performance. His steady voice fits well into the story, so you can absorb every part of its geekiness without missing out the details.
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- Raymond Lam
- 18-10-17
For the geeks, nerds and 80's quirky cult follower
This book was an Awesome trip down memory lane. Wil Wheaton is a perfect narrator!
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- andrea
- 04-03-14
You don't have to be a geek to enjoy this book....
I loved this book. I almost didn't pick it as it looked as it if was aimed at geeky teenage types. However, I was pretty gripped from the off. I was born in the 1970's so loved the heavy referencing of the 1980s/90s even though I'm not that familiar with video games of the time. Almost entirely set in a virtual world, if you enjoy futuristic/fantasy novels then this could be right up your street. A fairly easy listen and thoroughly enjoyable.
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- A.Brown
- 24-03-18
Fantastic!
This book is amazing, especially if you are into gaming or 80s pop culture. There's so many awesome references and the story is gripping all the way through.
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- O E Casale
- 24-10-17
As good as was said
I bought this due to the fact that self confessed non geeks liked it. They are right, a bit of knowledge doesn’t hurt but well worth 16hrs of life for
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- natmez22
- 10-08-20
immersive
I watched the movie before listening to the books and it's two very different experiences. The book allows you to explore more of the facets of the Oasis and Will Wheton delivers this perfectly. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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- spinalzombie
- 24-04-20
A Joy.
fantastic loved it all the way through. it's got so many references to classic Arcade games.
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- john
- 17-04-16
favourite book
loved the entire story line and Will Wheeton (sorry if spelt wrong) does am amazing job (get that man more books!!!)
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- Robert Meehan
- 16-08-20
Better than the film
Wil Wheaton was brilliant and was completely different from the film I loved it because of that.
If you think you don't want to listen to this because you have watched the film
Listen to it. The story is 95% different
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- Arnold Seivwright
- 21-03-20
cannot explain
how enthralling this audiobook/book was! holy-too-many-words to describe I got little to no work done because I kept jumping/screaming/yelling at almost every turn, no going back, no turn back! my friend recommended this to me and I wasn't interested thinking that the movie looked like a clash of too many things to work (still haven't seen the movie but I will now) but my surprise and elation throughout this book was great and I live under a rock, i imagine that if you actually know most of the references they make you will have double the fun heady in nostalgia, read it! listen to it! Wheaton is perfect as the narrator, worth every credit!
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