Sooo... I planned on reading the entire Lord of the Rings series over break - I have the entire story in one book - but as it turned out, I did a lot of sleeping, watching movies, and sitting in front of my laptop instead.
I did, however, get around to reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I bought it at Barnes & Noble after getting my ears pierced, and started it that night. By three in the morning, I was halfway through. Needless to say, the plot moves pretty quickly.
We start out with Wade Watts, the main character, wedged between a clothes washer and a wall in his Aunt Alice's trailer in the stacks - meaning a trailer park with several trailers stacked on top of each other to save space. Yeah. That's how awful the future is. Oh, did I mention it's the future?
In this awful new future, reality is pretty horrible, so people prefer to spend a lot of their time in the OASIS, an incredibly realistic video game world created by James Halliday and his friend Ogden Morrow. When Halliday died, he sent out a video announcing the start of the Easter Egg Hunt, where all OASIS users, or avatars, could search for the three keys to the three gates. The first avatar to make it through the third gate would inherit Halliday's enormous fortune.
Now it's all set up: a race to find the first key, get through the first gate, find the second key, go through the second gate, then find the third and final key and make it through the last gate to inherit Halliday's wealth.
I'd say the reading level wasn't incredibly hard, but it is interesting and easy to understand. WARNING: For those of you that care, there's a few fairly mature scenes and a moderate level of cussing. Overall, the plot moves pretty fast, and the story is interesting and engaging. I think it's Sci-fi/Fantasy, but even if you're not into Sci-Fi/Fantasy, the story is very enjoyable. I certainly liked it a lot.
| The cover! |
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| The other cover! |
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| Wade, climbing down from his aunt's trailer in the stacks. |
I really want to read that book it sounds really interesting and I have heard a lot of great things about it. Mostly from you.
ReplyDeletePS you should read the 5th Wave, it seems like something you would read.