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Cline’s first one!

“Ready Player One” is a science fiction adventure written by Ernest Cline and published in 2011. It is the writer’s first novel. Ernest Cline is a kid of the 80s. He loves Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

The story takes place in Colorado, USA in 2044. The world has been destroyed by global warming and economic problems, and the gap between the rich and the poor is bigger than ever before. People spend their time in the OASIS, the virtual reality world invented by James Halliday. There they can meet friends, go to clubs and earn money. Halliday has left a video message in which he says that he has hidden an Easter egg. Whoever finds it, will inherit his entire fortune and will also be in control of the OASIS. And there is Wade Watts, a poor boy who lives with his aunt. He and his friends want to stop IOI, the ruthless rival of the OASIS who wants to take control of the virtual reality world.

I sometimes thought that the writing style was monotonous. Also, I thought that the language is for advanced readers because I often had to look up words. The book has a very nice message: You should not waste your time with unimportant things.

I strongly recommend this novel to young adults and to people who grew up in the 80s because it has many allusions to that time.

Arwed (15)