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Ready Player One Book Report

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ave you ever wondered what it would be like to basically live inside a virtual reality game? If so, Ready Player One is the best book out there for that. Ready Player One, published by Ernest Cline on August 16th, 2011, has 385 pages of past pop culture, games, and everything like it. This is a science fiction, utopian and dystopian book meant for an older audience, especially ones who grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The book was a bestseller, and by far one of the best books I have ever read. There is a movie coming out about it in 2018, and it is likely to be a good one. Ready Player One takes place in the year of 2042 in Oklahoma. The main character, Wade Watts, also known as Parzival on the OASIS, the virtual reality world. OASIS stands …show more content…

Then he figured out where the egg was, and that it was on Ludus. He studied the place where it was hidden so he wouldn’t be surprised by anything that came up, since he had almost nothing. He snuck out to where the first egg was hidden and encountered a monster who was guarding the egg. The monster’s challenge was that if he could beat him in a game of Joust, he could have the egg. Parzival succeeded in getting to the egg on his first try, and while he was retreating from the hiding spot, he encountered Art3mis. He was a huge fan of her blog, and he lied to her about retrieving the egg. As time went on, he kept looking for the eggs, although the IOI was starting to catch up to him and some other gunters. The race for the eggs was heating up fast, and time was running out for Wade. Eventually, the egg was found, but the IOI was already there, trying to find out how to get to it. A huge war between the gunters of the OASIS and the IOI started, wiping out hundreds of avatars. During the war, Parzival managed to get to the egg, and he became the owner of the OASIS, and he wiped out the whole

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