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"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the Oasis. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines -- puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first...
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Trivia-on-Book: Ready Player One: by Ernest Cline Author Ernest Cline takes his readers on an adventurous and entertaining ride to the not-so-distant future. He touches the right chords by injecting the 1980's into the plot with a fast-paced and engrossing storyline that forces the reader to toy with the idea of a virtual world's clash with the real. John Scalzi, the renowned sci-fi writer, referred to Ready Player One as "nerdgasm".
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Digest & Review. With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • A digest of the Ready Player One • Content for your book club or other group event. • Stories beyond the digest and tidbits you may not know • The book's impact and its important to read • And more!
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A Study Guide for Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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This book summary and analysis is created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version. The year is 2044, and humankind has retreated into the virtual world. Wade Watts escapes the ugliness of the real world by spending most of the day inside OASIS-the virtual dreamland where...
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Want to listen to the original, but don't have enough time? Then grab a SpeedyReads version of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline now!
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Summary of Ready Player One:
The novel starts with Wade Watts, the narrator and central character, remembering the death of James Halliday, designer of the video game OASIS. In his parting message, Anorak's Invitation, Halliday left a game for the world to play,...
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"Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious...
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"It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the UFO he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays...
10) Supermarket
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"A stunning debut novel from one of the most creative voices of our generation, Bobby Hall--a.k.a. Logic. Flynn is stuck--depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work isn't work when it's saving you from yourself. But things aren't quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to...
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"This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist of our tumultuous age. A self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, the only child of an alcoholic, mentally ill mother on welfare and an absent, crack-addicted father. After enduring seventeen years of abuse and neglect,...
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Trivia-on-Book: Armada by Ernest Cline. Zack knows that there is more to life than just going to school and playing video games. So, when he sees an alien spacecraft from his favorite video game outside his classroom window, he feels relieved. He's finally getting the adventure he has always wanted. What he doesn't know is that the journey will be a very dangerous one, full of surprises and secrets.
Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One, delivers...
13) Art of Atari
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ATARI is one of the most recognized names in the world. Since its formation in 1972, the company pioneered hundreds of iconic titles including Asteroids, Centipede and Missile Command. In addition to hundreds of games created for arcades, home video systems, and computers, original artwork was specially commissioned to enhance the Atari experience, further enticing children and adults to embrace and enjoy the new era of electronic entertainment. ART...
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The government took control of Jake's mind, but his heart will help him break free. At least, it will try to. Jake is on a secret mission and carrying a deadly object. A mission he's not aware of, and one he's not supposed to return from. He's been turned into a pawn in a game that is bigger than him, controlled by dark and greedy forces who aim to rewrite his past, and delete his future. But after an accident wakes Jake up from the mind control of...
15) Peace Fire
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In 2050, the world is a little denser, a little greyer, and a little more firmly under the corporate thumb. Wriggling carefully under that thumb, in their dimly lit flats, Katja and her friends have tended to walk the fine line between cyber criminals and cyber crusaders. For them, no physical reality compares to their lives built on lines of aggressive code.But then somebody blows up the office where Katja is pretending to be a well-behaved wage...
16) Strong Bones
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"Peterson's tale strives to enshrine all that was magical about growing up in the '80s. He laces his narrative with mentions of favorite films, toys, video games, music, and fashion, much like Ernest Cline does in Ready Player One (2011). While primarily being a Stephen King-style panorama of a town gripped by horror, Peterson's story also feels like a cautionary middle-grade tale ... A magical killer and '80s pop culture headline this crowded but...
17) Ready Player One
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In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines-puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first...
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