• Ready Player One

  • By: Ernest Cline
  • Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
  • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,103 ratings)

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Ready Player One

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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Earth’s future is bleak in the gripping sci-fi fantasy audiobook Ready Player One, written by the brilliant Ernest Cline and narrated by American actor Wil Wheaton. Set in the near future, most of the human race have locked themselves into a virtual reality to escape the planet that the past generations had destroyed. Within this virtual existence lies the answer to infinite riches and Wade Watts spends every second on the treasure hunt. It is a frenzied race with countless players, all infected with desperation. The danger is intense and will affect them all.

Publisher's summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

The book behind the major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?

It's the year 2044 and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty and disease are widespread.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of 10,000 planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late 20th century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.

Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.

If you loved Ready Player One and can't wait for more, check out Armada, Ernest Cline's latest geek masterpiece!

©2011 Ernest Cline (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut." (Independent)

"Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart." (CNN)

"Ernest Cline’s novel deserves to be a modern classic." (SciFiNow)

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Absolutely phenomenal performance by Wil Wheaton

This has to be one of my favourite audio books I've yet listened to and most probably thanks to Wil's performance. Hats off, it was amazing.

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good listen, enjoyed the story and the performance

Good listen, enjoyed the story and the performance. I'll keep this one on the phone for a few more hearings.

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An 80's Junkies Dream

Couldn't get enough of this Audio Book... Definitely going to listen to it a few more times

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Only for gamers and nerds.

Not a book for anyone but gamers and nerds.
The references get a bit much at times, but overall a very enjoyable book.

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Loved it.

Had everything a guy who grew up in the 80s loving sci-fi and games could want.

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Captivating

What did you love best about Ready Player One?

The plot bringing together today's technology mixed together with cult classics fromp the past. This book is a electric journey that keeps you on edge for the whole book. Can't wait for the movie to come out.

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A really great read, clever and unique.

If you could sum up Ready Player One in three words, what would they be?

Hmm, clever, unique and daring. I grew up in the eighties and connected with almost every part of Ernie Cline's wonderful book. When I found a part that I wasn't familiar with I would pause the book and look it up on Google. I ended up listening to Rush 2112 and rented War Games, which I had watched when it first came out but really enjoyed watching again.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the references to the eighties and video games and the fact that by creating a virtual world he made almost anything possible. Even giant Japanese robots LOL

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Amaze ballz Check this one out

Great story, narration, I could really feel the different characters from Will Weatons reading, definitely one of the best audio books out there

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A GEEKS PARADISE

Ernest Cline and Wil Wheaton are brilliant together and bring to life something so fun and heart warming

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Can not get enough

I have heard this book more times than I can remember. One of my all time favorite books. The narration by Will Wheaton is superb! makes the whole book simply amazing. This is the one book that I always return to listen to.

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