Dawn B. (stargazingbookworm) - , reviewed on 5/26/2020 + 29 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This is a rip roaring ride - an Indiana Jones gauntlet of thrills.
If you are a nerd, geek, Trekkie, sci-fi junkie, bookworm, 80's (and 70's or before) movie, TV-show and music aficionado - than this book is for you. (Which is the reason I only gave it 4 1/2 stars - not everyone is...). Its the perfect book for summer reading.

Instead of living in the real world - which is awful and shows signs of what we are going through right now (2020) - everyone and I mean everyone lives in the OASIS - a virtual holo-deck of gaming where you are in the video games. Kids go to school in the OASIS (Online learning sound familiar?), people shop, its where all go to win instead of live. A place where anything that you might really have of any value gets sold to get more time in the game.
The creator, well one of them, dies and instead of bequeathing his vast fortune to his now ex-partner in the OASIS, he leaves a game - a winner takes all game - leaving hidden eggs and gates. If you are the last one standing then you are mega-rich and own the OASIS and control all of it. Throw in a few high school students that only know each other by their avatars, a rich cooperate company that owns everything else and also wants the OASIS and a bunch of geeky people trying to save it.

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