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Ready Player One

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

I was given this book by a freind over the weekend and am only 80 pages in but I swear..

Every ALFAn will love and must read this book!

The plot centers around the last will and testmenent of mega-billionaire inventor James Halliday set in the year 2044. Halliday was “the video-game designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis." Halliday has decided to leave all his real life money to an OASIS player and left clues to his vast fortune within OASIS. His well-known eccentric obsession and encyclopedic knowledge of the 1980s have led players within the OASIS to study the 80's pop-culture to extreme detail in hopes of finding the treasure in-game.

I won't say too much more but ...... wow! Give it a read! :)
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Ready Player One now out in paperback as of June 5.

I can't tell you all how much I enjoyed it.

http://www.readyplayerone.com/
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Thanks DD gonna give it a read
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I'll get it for my Kindle.
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I started reading it yesterday evening and it's really good so far.

Thanks for the recommendation DD.
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Which books would I have to read before? :huh:
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None. It's self contained.
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Hialmar wrote:I started reading it yesterday evening and it's really good so far.

Thanks for the recommendation DD.
Glad you like it. For me, a gamer "of a certain age" it was like reading cotton candy. I tore it through it happily.
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Lemme know when the movie comes out.
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Galadorn wrote:Lemme know when the movie comes out.
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Read it, enjoyed.
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A Great read. Reminded me of my days on Northen Cormyr.
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Having read the book, would anyone be interested in having a play through of this module?


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Tore through this book in what time I could find in the last three days, and highly recommend it to all of you.
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ElCadaver wrote:A Great read. Reminded me of my days on Northen Cormyr.
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Elrien Weiss was my Art3mis!
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Well now I need to read this book so I know exactly how creeped out I need to be in response to this statement! ;-D

(On my To Read list... just got to finish Fall of Hyperion and Ender's Game first)
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