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A review by rachellarson2019
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4.0
I listened to this as an audio book and initially started it with my kids on a long road trip. They loved it so much that they finished it without me, with their dad, on another long road trip. Really the only downside to this book is the length, it’s over 16 hours if you listen to it, so it does take quite some time to finish.
The book itself follows a teenager gaming in a virtual universe in a high stakes game sometime in the future. I would not have read it on my own, as the subject doesn’t really appeal to me, but selected it thinking it would appeal to my kids and it did! Having said that, it’s not a very kid friendly book as far as some of the subject matter and language goes, so proceed with caution if you are careful with those kinds of things.
I liked this a surprising amount, the kids loved it, and so did their dad. We are all quite different in our book tastes so it is really difficult to find something we all love.
The scope of the book is impressive, along with all of the pop culture references from the 80s. I didn’t understand as many of them as I would have if I had been exposed to pop culture then, but the book is so well written and engaging that it didn’t even matter. I don’t enjoy gaming at all but still like this book. Highly recommend the audiobook if you are taking a road trip with teenagers that love to game and adults that grew up in the 80s.
The book itself follows a teenager gaming in a virtual universe in a high stakes game sometime in the future. I would not have read it on my own, as the subject doesn’t really appeal to me, but selected it thinking it would appeal to my kids and it did! Having said that, it’s not a very kid friendly book as far as some of the subject matter and language goes, so proceed with caution if you are careful with those kinds of things.
I liked this a surprising amount, the kids loved it, and so did their dad. We are all quite different in our book tastes so it is really difficult to find something we all love.
The scope of the book is impressive, along with all of the pop culture references from the 80s. I didn’t understand as many of them as I would have if I had been exposed to pop culture then, but the book is so well written and engaging that it didn’t even matter. I don’t enjoy gaming at all but still like this book. Highly recommend the audiobook if you are taking a road trip with teenagers that love to game and adults that grew up in the 80s.