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A viciously occult murder. A curious clue left on the body. The soundtrack to the murder still...
The Orthodox Heretic And Other Impossible Tales
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For so many, the Christian faith is viewed as little more than a drug that enables the weak to...
Love Me Sweet
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Delaney Masterson isn’t looking for fame. Yes, she has famous parents and a reality TV show,...
One Word Kill
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In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even...
Power Struggle (Detective Madison Knight series Book 8)
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One female detective. One Mafia hit man. One score to settle. Murder takes a personal turn for...
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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
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Saving Wishes (Wishes, #1)
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Claimed (Lair of the Wolven, #1)
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David McK (3652 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books
Sep 19, 2021
Have also seen the movie mentioned below. It was just OK; not great.
<original 2016 review>
Prior to reading this, I'd heard good things about it, and was aware that - like seemingly nearly all of the current Young Adult Dystopian novels - there was a movie for it in the pipeline, by none other than Spielberg himself.
Set in the near-future, I found this to be like a cross between the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates (in that nearly everybody seems to live their life vicariously through other means), The Matrix (cyber reality) and maybe even a bit of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the MacGuffin that gets the plot rolling). it probably helps that - unlike the characters - I actually *was* a kid in the 80s, and so get plenty of the various pop-culture references made.
Plenty, but not all - this, remember, is set in America, so leans more towards the American or Japanese spectrum of popular culture than European.