Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Crumbling future filled with poverty and famine amidst a major energy crisis and rising sea levels? Who wouldn't want to escape from that kind of bleak reality and into a virtual world where you can be anyone or anything?
Cline's book features heavy doses of 80s pop culture nostalgia, video game love, and a hero who is unabashedly a computer geek? *And* it doesn't mock him or play that for snide laughs? Fantastic!
Of course, this is a YA novel, so there's definitely some coming of age stuff here, and if you're not interested in teens falling in love and then breaking up and then moping around about it talking about how they're all emotionally brought low, then perhaps you're a sixer and this isn't for you. If you love YA books that revel in the glories of gaming, endorsing geeky pursuits, and glorifying knowledge, persistence, and friendship, then I'd highly recommend this.
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