Ready Player One

It's evident for the reader that Cline grew up surrounded by media and art that left a positive mark on him. Ready Player One is an homage to some of the great games, music, movies, and series made in the 70s/80s and a dream about a game that would allow us to be wherever we want and free us from the limited reality in which we live.

Cline raises some subtly interesting points in his dystopian world about the way we're currently ‘paving' our future and depicts the passionate ‘obsession' that us geeks have when we love and care about something.

I must say this book may not be for everyone. Some may feel the geeky references that drive the story forward a little bit too much.

However, if there's somewhere inside you a person that fondly remembers their child/adolescent years listening to music in their room, knowing all the secret ‘cheats' for a specific game, watching a favorite movie/series over and over again, Ready Player One may be a good book for you, and certainly, the time you take to read it will be time well spent.

So go ahead and read it. Even if it's just to pique your curiosity to listen to some band, see some movie/series, or play some retro game that, for some reason, you've never gotten into before.