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Ready Player One
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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Editor reviews
Earth’s future is bleak in the gripping sci-fi fantasy audiobook Ready Player One, written by the brilliant Ernest Cline and narrated by American actor Wil Wheaton. Set in the near future, most of the human race have locked themselves into a virtual reality to escape the planet that the past generations had destroyed. Within this virtual existence lies the answer to infinite riches and Wade Watts spends every second on the treasure hunt. It is a frenzied race with countless players, all infected with desperation. The danger is intense and will affect them all.
Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
The book behind the major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
It's the year 2044 and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty and disease are widespread.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of 10,000 planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late 20th century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.
Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.
If you loved Ready Player One and can't wait for more, check out Armada, Ernest Cline's latest geek masterpiece!
Critic reviews
"Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut." (Independent)
"Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart." (CNN)
"Ernest Cline’s novel deserves to be a modern classic." (SciFiNow)
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- John jest
- 09-07-19
Absolutely Loved it
I absolutely loved this audiobook.
I highly suggest watching the movie before either reading or listening to the book. The book is so much better and ruins the movie if you don't watch it first.
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- D
- 09-01-20
So much better than the film
I loved this book from the first time I heard it and was excited when they announced they were making it into a film and then was immediately gutted that all of my favourite parts were left out or changed. This is an awesome novel
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- Patricia Davidson
- 18-05-20
A good book
made better by Wil Wheaton’s telling of it. I’ve read the book before and thoroughly enjoyed it. After the first few chapters I got out my copy and reread it with this, and will do so again in the future. A good book.
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- Easygamer
- 18-09-19
Great story a must listen.
loved every minute of it much better than the movie, U will not be disappointed.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-07-19
Amazing
I really enjoyed this book will Wheaton voice was perfect. It was a great story lind
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- Chris
- 15-01-20
Fantastic story
I loved the movie, but as usual the story in the book is so much more, and in this case, very different too.
Brilliantly narrated by Wil Wheaton
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- Brian Deacon
- 02-10-19
awesome
loved it, great narrator & story. kept me enthralled for a long time. voice was good as some voices can irritate - will not be disappointed if you love nostalgia etc
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- A. Boulton
- 13-10-19
80s child
If your a child of the 80s you will love this book so many references to things from your childhood. Will Wheaton give a fantastic performance of the book. All round a brilliant listen!
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- Conor
- 21-02-19
Brilliant!!
best audible book i have listened to in a long time. would definitely recommend this to anyone
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- Terri
- 18-12-18
Such a good story
This story is so much better than the movie and well performed by Wil Wheaton. Loved it!!
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