Ernest Cline's Ready Player One: A Thrilling Adventure Through a Virtual Reality World

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Germany on Oct 28, 2023

Amazon Kunde: Wenn man es mit dem Film von Spielberg vergleicht, so ist dieser nur eine nette homage an dieses Meisterwerk von Buch

Germany on Oct 10, 2023

Amazon Customer: Set in the future, but brings back memories. Great story, very well put together. If you saw the movie, this is considerably better.

United Kingdom on Oct 08, 2023

Mr. C. J. Lewis: After seeing and loving the film I was thrilled to find out it was based on a book. I didn't know that. However, this is completely different to the film. I was expecting a word by word walk through of the film. What I got instead was a completely different take on the same idea. All the main themes are there but with many variations on the theme.
And to be honest I really like both of them. Having seen the film 1st I had all the characters images in my head, how they acted, talked etc which really helped when I tried to build this written world in my head. Usually I hate reading the book after watching the film but this has made me want to watch the film again. Currently on holiday, so I can't watch it yet, but it'll be 1st on my list when I return.
Now onto Ready Player Two.

United Kingdom on Jul 27, 2023

Meine Bücherwürmer: Im Jahr 2045 verbringt ein Großteil der Menschheit seine Zeit in der virtuellen Welt der OASIS, alleine schon um der harten Realität einer zugrunde gehenden Welt zu entkommen. Allerdings bietet die OASIS nicht nur Unterhaltung in Form von Spielen und Filmen, sondern auch Arbeitsplätze und Bildungsangebote. Wade Watts ist praktisch in der OASIS groß geworden. Vor einer Weile hat er dann auch die Gelegenheit genutzt und ist von seiner realen Schule in eine virtuelle Schule in der OASIS gewechselt. Neben der Schule verbringt Wade seine gesamte Zeit mit der Suche nach einem Easter Egg in der virtuellen Realität. Der OASIS-Erschaffer James Halliday ist fünf Jahre zuvor verstorben und hat in seinem Testament verfügt, dass sein gesamtes Vermögen und seine Mehrheitsanteile an der OASIS an denjenigen Spieler gehen, der zuerst ein von ihm verstecktes Easter Egg aufspüren kann. Anfangs war das Interesse an der Eierjagd riesengroß. Doch nachdem jahrelang keine Spur gefunden werden konnte, haben die meisten Menschen das Interesse verloren. Lediglich die Firma IOI, die die OASIS übernehmen und wirtschaftlich ausbeuten möchte, beschäftigt noch professionelle Spieler, die für sie...

Germany on Sep 27, 2022

John Walker: By the mid-21st century, the Internet has become largely subsumed as the transport layer for the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), a massively multiuser online virtual reality environment originally developed as a multiplayer game, but which rapidly evolved into a platform for commerce, education, social interaction, and entertainment used by billions of people around the world. The OASIS supports immersive virtual reality, limited only by the user's budget for hardware used to access the network. With top-of-the-line visors and sound systems, body motion sensors, and haptic feedback, coupled to a powerful interface console, a highly faithful experience was possible. The OASIS was the creation of James Halliday, a legendary super-nerd who made his first fortune designing videogames for home computers in the 1980s, and then re-launched his company in 2012 as Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS), with the OASIS as its sole product. The OASIS was entirely open source: users could change things within the multitude of worlds within the system (within the limits set by those who created them), or create their own new worlds. Using a distributed...

United States on Dec 05, 2019

Moon Donkey: Freaking Spectacular

Ready Player One is one heck of a great book. Freakishly great. My initial reaction after finishing it was that it is a Hall of Fame inductee. Yeah... it was that good.

Oh - and I should mention that I was very honored to learn that my scores of review groupies voted me the greatest reviewer of all time. The usual response to something like that would be to say "I'm humbled." You know... that is what you always hear from sports figures, actors, and politicians when the win something. "I'm very humbled... " they say. Was I humbled? Heck no! That word isn't even in my dictionary! You are darn right I'm the greatest reviewer of all time! Humbled? Bah... more like - what took you so long to figure that out?! I mean what the heck... isn't it obvious? There should be two categories of reviews on Amazon. One for Moondonkey, and one for everyone else. In fact, Amazon should put a "Moondonkey" option under the search menu. Anyway... thank you for the honor. Yes, I am the greatest reviewer of all time.

Back to Ready Player One. You know - I suppose it helped that I grew up in the 80's and could recognize most of the references. In fact, I think I...

United States on Feb 07, 2012