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title: Ready Player One | By Ernest Cline 
author: Rami Taibah 
permalink: Ready Player One 
categories: Books 
tags: Sci-fi, Virtual Reality, 80's, Video Games 

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**Start date:** Saturday 2nd of January 2016

**End date:** Monday 4th of January 2016

## Review

 I have a love/hate relationship with this book. I really enjoyed reading about OASIS, the virtual world the author built and the possibilities it offers. Cline did a great job in imagining a virtual world that we can actually build today with the current technology we have. As a technologist, OASIS set my imagination free. This perhaps is the most single factor that allowed me to really enjoy this book.

 However, I felt that the 80's references were a bit too much. To a level where it felt that the author was just bragging about his deep knowledge of the 70's and 80's. The characters were somewhat flat and two-dimensional, with no character advancement whatsoever. I kept expecting plot-twists at every corner, there were none. Maybe that's a meta-plot-twist right there, but still the progress of the story felt a bit too linear.

 All in all, it's a fun book to read. If you are a video gamer, like sci-fi, or love the 80's pick this one up. It's a simple read and you will easily finish it in a sitting or two.


 ## Protips:

 - Keep wikipedia/youtube handy, looking up the references will enhance your enjoyment of the book. Also if the reference is to obscure (i.e no Wikipedia article dedicated to it,) just skip it.

 - Use [this](https://sites.google.com/site/ymreadyplayerone/)

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