#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
“Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.
When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.
Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club
“Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost
“An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN
“A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe
“Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR
“[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9
After trying out a sample of this book, I was hooked. I knew I had to read it. Unfortunately, the action kind of stopped after the prologue. It was a lot of world building, which of course is important, but I kind of missed the action from the prologue. Also, the way the world building was told, was rather boring.
When the story started to unfold, everything got better. It's not that exciting a story, but it still has that kind of "just one more page..."-feeling to it.
What makes this book interesting is that you kind of forget that there is an actual world outside of this computergame. The writer uses the reality to make a very realistic-looking game, and you have to concentrate hard not to forget that it's a game. It's not the easiest thing to seperate the two worlds. And this is where the writing is good.
Over all this was a good book, but I found it to be a bit too predictable, even though it had a twist. I was disappointed with this book, because after reading the sample, I had really high expectations. Sadly, this book couldn't reach them. This book is made of cliffhangers at the end of each chapter.
