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Book Summary: Ready Player One

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The first section of the novel Ready Player One describes a utopia that is infatuated with video gaming inside a world called the OASIS, created by the late James Holliday, that left his will to the first player to discover all of his “Easter Eggs” within the game. Wade is a high school senior who lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with his aunt and several families in a trailer home, known as part of the “stacks.” He also attends public school in the virtual world of the OASIS, and spends his spare time adventuring across numerous planets and completing quests. While inside the game, Wade, whose character is also known as Parzival, completes many tasks that refer to many 80s movies, music videos, games, and styles. Wade’s character in the OASIS allows him to escape a world that is falling into …show more content…

The amount of damage the group was willing to create shocked me because the real world is starting to mesh entirely with the online world. I was confused at first as to why the Sixers would want to recruit Wade onto their team, but it made complete sense after he unlocked the first gate. The ability to recruit gamers gave the group a larger chance at winning Halliday’s will, thus receiving the power to control the world’s largest revenue building and growing product. The power over the OASIS would provide power in the real world as well apparently. The impact Art3mis had on Wade seems completely cliche to me because it nearly appears in every young adult novel. I was disappointed in the fact that Wade falls head over heels over a character he has never met because it suggests that a person’s value in life is determined by love and acceptance, which is completely untrue. However, I enjoy the plot of the novel and am looking forward to the outcome of the battle between Parzival and Art3mis for the second

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