Ready Player One

While I was reading this I was asking myself ... “am I enjoying this because of the 80-90s references? Is the story actually good?”. Near the end of the book the references found on every freaking page starting to get more and more annoying and then it hit me. The references themselves are just there to validate the geek/nerd culture. I think this book got so many good reviews mostly because of the nostalgia factor and the fact that people want and need the geek/nerd culture to be validated. Having a 5 star book, having a movie ... it means that your culture is validated. For me, I don't need and I don't care about validation.

The story overall was so so. It was a light read ... but that's about it.