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Ready Player One
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.9 (161 Ratings)
Book Rating
Reference laden escapism
Cline isn't the first to use this idea (life is rotten so let's all hang out in the virtual world instead!) but no one else has done it with such gleeful cramming of nostalgic pop culture references. Some very clever ideas, and decent writing.
  
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Kat (3 KP) rated Twitter in Apps

Jan 30, 2018  
Twitter
Twitter
News, Social Networking
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7.4 (69 Ratings)
App Rating
Easy place to keep up to date with current events (2 more)
Good place to find people with similar interests
Companies/Celebrities sometimes update Twitter first in reference to certain projects or specials they are having
It's easy to waste alot of time on, if you're not careful (0 more)
  
Not always engaging, but it does provide material and analysis which is helpful for combating the Jesus of the Jesus Seminar and similar radical contemporary scholars, as well as non-scholars like Dan Brown. As such, I recommend owning it for at least the reference materials.