Ready Player One Epub Edition To download now please click the link below. http://bluewildcat.com/RPO.htm At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed. It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune— and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig. And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle. Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape. A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
Reviews To me, the 1980s was a lost decade. The fashion was bad, I had no patience for video games and I never got the whole John Hughes obsession. With as much disdain as I feel towards the decade "Ready Player One" is so lovingly a tribute to, it was with more than slight astonishment that I found myself unable to put this book down. As it turns out, Cline's original yet nostalgic take on the popular dystopian genre is the most fun, most addictive reading experience I've had in a long, long time. This must be how avid video gamers feel when they play an addictive new game, is what I thought to myself more than once when I powered through this book, eagerly anticipating each puzzle and obstacle that would come next. Like with some of the more advanced video games (I never really made it past Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt), there's a clever, self-referential level of wishfulfillment at the core of Cline's universe. The entire human population spends 99% of their time plugged into the virtual environment OASIS, where they can be anyone they want. This is reflected back onto itself when moving through Halliday's scavenger hunt, because many of the puzzles involve diving into and reenacting various pop culture moments, including reciting John Hughes movies start to finish. So you have Wade, as his virtual alter-ego Perzival, pretending to be Matthew Broderick playing a character in a movie. So meta! "Ready Player One" is by no means close to a perfect book. The writing is rather simple (all the easier to plow through it, my dear) and the answer to the first puzzle seemed so obvious to me I was pretty disbelieving that in five years no one could figure it out. Cline also tends to let his pop culture references do the heavy-lifting for him, in that he would present them as they are in their original form and let them act as the reader's entertainment. There isn't a lot of depth or insight into his choices and his futuristic dystopian universe doesn't say too much about our own, but then again, if there is any quintessential example of escapist entertainment, this would be it.
The year is 2044, the various wars between nations have resulted in a world of darkness, poverty and danger. But OASIS provides the virtual world everyone escapes to. Virtual classrooms, virtual planets, avatars of your choosing, shopping malls, even virtual towns that resembled the towns in the 20th Century. And best of all, setting up an OASIS account is free. In this world enters Wade, whose avatar Parzival, goes to the OASIS public school on the planet Ludus. He has a best friend, Aech, a crush on Art3mis, and later meets Daito and Shoto, 2 Japanese avatars. The only thing they have in common is they're all avatars in OASIS, set on individual quests to earn credits that will allow them to make purchases for their online personas and level up to earn more talents and power. But OASIS was invented byJames Halliday, and upon his death, he broadcasts his will and issues a challenge to all. If anyone can find the 3 keys that will lead them through 3 Gates and they find the ultimate prize, an easter egg, that person will inherit the immense wealth accumulated by Halliday and OASIS.
Needless to say this starts a race among gunters (egg hunters) who hunt individually or in clans. But there's an evil corporation, IOI, who have teams of Sixters, employees tasked with finding this Egg which will give IOI total control over OASIS, which they want to turn into a fee-based service. The hunt is made more difficult because all gunters need to understand Halliday, an eccentric recluse who loved everything about the 1980s. The entire book is filled with wonderful references to video games and arcade games popular in the 80s, books, movies, tv series and music of the 80s. Lyrics and scripts are cleverly woven into the quest. In addition, the IOI appear to stop at nothing to find the ultimate prize, even murder. But underneath all the nostalgia for the 80s, as with any good quest, our protagonist has to learn through his mistakes and about human relationships, that the online world is fantasy and that there is a real world out there that he should learn to enjoy as well.
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