Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Pretty intriguing and creative story about a young guy who escapes the real world into an internet-based cyber world where he goes by another identity and tries to beat the whole world to a million-dollar prize hidden within the game. (Sadly, can't recommend to everybody for some language and other sketchy issues. Wish Cline had just left some of that out, because it still would have been edgy with the characters expressing themselves in more creative and intelligent ways.) The setting of a cyber world with endless planets and galaxies to explore? Awesome. Limitless possibilities here. Cline does hit on some provocative points about cyber privacy, material greed, the conflicts with anonymity, and the difference between living in a real vs. a Matrix-like world. However, the book stays focused on the fun side; that is, the pursuit of a million-dollar inheritance by winning a series of video game quests. Pretty fun stuff.
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