This book was so damn good I swear it was written just for me. It is chock full of pop cultural references from the years of my youth. It references books, movies, TV, cartoons and so much goodness it was amazing.
To make it even better this was an audiobook read by Will Wheaton, who was also a character in the book in his dotage!
And now it's going to be a major motion picture in 2014!!
"The year is 2044 and the world is in near-ruins. The Great Recession has taken its toll on the world's economy, and resources are scarce. The internet and gaming culture have evolved to a creation known as OASIS, a massive multiplayer online simulation game created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow, the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates of Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS). Halliday, with no heirs or other living family, dies suddenly and leaves a video will to those in OASIS and a book that was dubbed Anorak's Almanac, which purports to be a volume written by James Halliday's avatar Anorak in OASIS. The video says that whomever can collect three keys (Copper, Jade, and Crystal) that are hidden throughout the universe of OASIS and can pass through the matching gates will receive his fortune and controlling stake in GSS. This becomes known as the Hunt and people at once begin searching for Halliday's "Egg", a reference to the first "Easter Egg" in video game culture in the game Adventure."
I rate it 8 of 10!! Great Stuff.
--It even has School House Rock!!
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