Target: Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One
Profile: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Pop Culture, Adventure!
Ready Player One is one of those books that’s been sitting on the shelves at Barnes and Nobel taunting me with nearly universal acclaim for longer than I care to think about. Not only that, but it falls clearly into my ‘near future, speculative fiction’ bailiwick and even focuses on video game culture, so I really have no excuse as to why I’m only just now adding it to my library. And that’s a shame, because it really is quite good.
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Any returning readers will recall that I intensely dislike reading books with good press or recommendations, mostly because it means that I’m suddenly holding the author (and the book) to much higher standards than are reasonable, but also because it messes with the way that I think about writing these reviews. I feel pressure to generate ‘original’ criticism, which puts my tendency to nitpick into overdrive.
Great review! I love this book more than is strictly reasonable.
Reasonable isn’t a word that applies to my reading list. ^_^
Amen…
Super excited for the sequel that was just announced!
I really loved this book when I read it awhile back and have been toying with the idea of listening to the audio version for this CBR.
I’d love to hear what you think! The book is definitely worthy of many second opinions.
I love this book and recommend it all the time. I may have to go back for a reread now. Well done!
It’s such a great book. I should totally make time in my busy reading schedule to re-read it. Of course, what I’d love to do, is get the audio book narrated by Wil Wheaton. But will Audible let me? Nope. Stupid regional restrictions. What good is Norway’s oil money if I can’t buy the stuff I want?
Your library doesn’t have it? 99% of the audiobooks I listen to are downloaded from my library. It’s one of the more awesome things the library has ever done and that’s really saying something.
Oh, wait, if you’re from Norway that might explain why your library doesn’t have English language audiobooks. Duh, Amanda.