Ready Player One

I have a confession to make, I'm a reader! I love reading books and my idea of perfection is to one day own a library complete with a wing-back chair and a table for my cognac glass. So it is about time I write my first book review. The book that really blew my socks off last year was Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown Publishing) and that is why I've decided to start 2012 off by telling you about it! I read the book in norwegian, published by the awesome publishing company Vendetta who also had their literary agent himself translate! He did a jolly good job at it, keeping most of the english movie titles in english and staying close to the original material.

My co-worker called the book a combination of The Matrix and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which pretty much nails it! The plot is played out in a future dystopia where humankind has destroyed the planet and most people spend their time in a virtual world called OASIS. When the creator of OASIS dies, he tells the public that he has hidden a golden egg in OASIS and the finder will inherit his entire fortune and the rights to the game. Our protagonist Wade Watts is an eighteen year old orphan with a special gift for playing eighties arcade games which are frequent in OASIS due to the creators love of his childhood decade. The antagonists are the "eggers" which is a large corporation that uses dirty tricks to find the golden egg.

This book is a must read for anybody who likes arcade games/ virtual multiplayer online games and the eighties. Ready Player One is also a must read for anybody else who fancies a damn good read and wants to escape into a different universe for a chapter or two! I found myself daydreaming at work about what would happen next to geeky Wade and was pleasantly surprised when Mr. Cline managed to twist and turn the direction of the story several times! Hope this has spurned your interest ;) have a great read!