Ready Player One - Book Review

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Well this is going to be my first book review on this platform it has been a while since I have read fiction or a non-fiction book and I guess I'm finally back at it, the last time I guess i've have read a book was somewhere around 2017 after which I donated around 300 books which is pretty much my entire collection to a charity event.

I am someone who collects book, maintain them in their pristine condition and none of my books have creases on them and you guessed it I DON'T LEND MY BOOKS 😂

Last week my cousin brother gave me a bunch of books and I figured probably about time I get back to reading books and the first book I picked out of the lot was;

READY PLAYER ONE
(Few Spoilers Included)

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Pretty much like we all tend to imagine and probably know it the future is a your usual dystopian horror story. Pretty much no one wanted to live in reality and you couldn’t blame them especially the narrator Wade Watts an 18 year old, who spends most of his time in a virtual world, He was orphaned at 11, had no friends in Oklahoma City (In The Movie He Lived In Columbus, Ohio But In The Book He Starts Off At Oklahoma City And Then Makes The Move To Columbus).

The OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation) is a sprawling virtual utopia where pretty much the entire of humanity escapes to be whoever and whatever the wanted to be and it’s free to access. The Creator Of OASIS creator, the legendary billionaire James Halliday. upon his death bed left behind curious will for the players.

A massive hunt for a hidden Easter egg in the game which grants the finder the inheritance of Halliday's his estate and prizes worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Three keys (Copper, Jade & Crystal) lead to three gates and to find them players had to solve old fashioned riddles sent in the era of the 1980's pop culture.

5 years down the line and no Gunter (Egg-Hunter) yet has found even a single clue except Wade Watts, or better known as Parzival which was his chosen name for his avatar. He became the first to win the Copper Key which was the first of three keys. Halliday had an obsession with the pop culture of the 1980s, primarily the arcade games of that century.

Parzival’s most formidable competitors currently are the Sixers, who happen to contract gunters working for an evil conglomerate called IOI (Innovative Online Industries), whose goal is to acquire the OASIS and charge every user a heavy fee for playing he game and include advertisements throughout the game.

It takes quite sometime to reach a scene which crackles with excitement which is the meeting between Parzival who is currently world famous as the lead contender and Sorrento, the head cunt of IOI. They tried to recruit Parzival and when they fail, he issues and executes a pretty nasty death threat which leaves Wade’s trailer in the stack demolished, his relatives and neighbours are killed and luckily Wade wasn’t at home.

Parzival threads his way between more ’80s games and movies to gain the other keys; which he eventually does, The romance between Parzival & Atr3mis was sadly a disappointment I feel, but compared to the movie it was way better.

The High 5

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Movie V/S Book

• In the movie Wade could travel freely wherever he wanted to in the OASIS without any trouble and in the book he’s too poor to travel anywhere apart from his boring starter planet called Incipio and his public school on Ludus.

• In the movie the gunters knew the location of the Copper Key and they had to compete in a race and win it to acquire the key but in the book the location of the first quest was a mystery. It was a Dungeons & Dragons quest which was cleverly hidden in the empty wilderness of Ludus which is th ePublic School System which was then followed by a match to the death of the classic 80's arcade game called Joust. Art3mis was the first Gunter to find the dungeon, but Parzival was the first to beat the game and acquire the key.

• In the movie Daito and Shoto are brothers in real life, and Shoto happens to be only 11 years old. and in the book, Daito and Shoto never meet in real life.

• Daito makes it to the end of the movie but in the book he was murdered by IOI in the real life sadly.

• In the movie Parzival wins the quarter in a bet with a virtual guide (Who Happens To Be Odgen Morrows Avatar) to Halladay’s library and in the book, Parzival during his search for the Jade Key happens to play a perfect game of Pac-Man which wins him the quarter.

Hope you guys stuck through the entire review 😂 I am currently reading Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone and i'll be done in a day or two and I know i'm pretty late to start reading Harry Potter 😂 Okay Bye for now ❤️

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