8/30/2023 0 Comments Free audio books ready player one![]() ![]() Wade lives with his aunt and fifteen other people in their trailer, which is part of a stack of twenty-two mobile homes, reeking "of cat piss and abject poverty". Our protagonist, Wade Watts, lives in one of many stacks that have formed around the country - piles of camper vans and trailers one on top of the other, creating crude and dangerous apartment blocks and maximising the use of the space. Set in America in 2045, this is a time when the world has almost completely gone to shit. I'm going to give a brief summary of the first fifty pages or so - it'll seem like a large summary, because it's a complex story! - but I'm going to keep the spoilers to a minimum, because this is a book that you really need to experience for the first time with an element of surprise behind it. ![]() In actuality, the story was much more engrossing and unique than I ever could have imagined. I've had my eye on 'Ready Player One' for nearly a year now, but I just hadn't found the motivation to pick it up the blurb was extremely vague so I had no idea what I was expecting from this one. If you haven't heard of this book, I'll be extremely surprised - it's received rave reviews, and Steven Spielberg has already signed on for the movie adaptation that's in the works. It's not often that I read a book and intuitively know that it's just become one of my favourite books of all time, but I had that realisation with 'Ready Player One'. 'Growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. ![]()
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