Ready Player One
After trekking through numerous levels filled with puzzles, monsters, and platforms spaced just so, Novel Ideas returns with Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This is a book about video games, nerdery, and the 1980’s. Also about corporate interests, environmental disaster, and the 80’s. Also also about friendship, the superiority of real life to virtual life, and the 80’s. But mostly this is a book about the 80’s. In this week’s episode we discuss all of those issues, as well as the 80’s, with only brief intervals to make our own nerdy references. (And don’t forget the 80’s.)
The music bump is “Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo, appearing in the intro to the book as well as the intro to Jim Halliday’s rather narcissistic posthumous treasure hunt.
Novel Ideas 
November 20, 2012 at 12:02 pm
So while I was editing, I realized that I wasn’t discussing “Ready Player One” with Alan, I was actually discussing an anime called “Fractale.” But the principles are the same. #Ben
November 20, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Yes!!! I loved this book.