Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
reviewed by Lintaro
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a very intriguing novel that provides a speculative view about what our future will look like. The story focuses on a teenage boy named Wade, who lives in the year 2044, a year where people are unemployed, oil is a premium commodity, and life is a relative dystopia. Because of this, the world and Wade spends most of their time on a realistic simulation game called The OASIS where everything is plentiful and free. But this all changes when the game's creator dies and his entire $240 billion fortune is left to any OASIS player who can solve a complex scavenger hunt that he coded. Now with the possibility of becoming a billionaire in a second, Wade starts the long quest to solve the scavenger hunt.
This book is a very enthralling read full of thrills and excitement. The book becomes more exciting through its incredible realism and character development. However it is sometimes not very descriptive, which may confuse the reader. Overall, the book is a very interesting read.