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Dash
 Post subject: LTTP: Ready Player One
PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:17 pm 
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Anyone ever read this novel by Ernest Cline? I'm listening to the audiobook now on the recommendation of a friend.

To get a sense of it, it starts out by recounting the magic "dot" in the Atari 2600 game "Adventure". It takes place in a world where an MMO is comprised of virtually all the worlds population. Right now the protagonist is... well I wont ruin it.

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He's playing an arcade game of Joust against a Demi-Lich in the Tomb of Horrors within a virtual world on a real-life quest that the MMO creator devised. I'm only at the beginning.


Suffice to say this is an homage to everything 80's including D&D, arcade and video games. Filled with 80's trivial and references.

The audiobook is read by Wil Wheaton.

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 Post subject: LTTP: Ready Player One
PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:28 pm 
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Great book. Name checks norrath too.
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Yah Norrath and Azeroth too I've heard so far. Good stuff.

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