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Audio Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Release Date:  August 16, 2011 Publisher:  Random House Audio Length: 15 hours 46 minutes Narrator: Wil Wheaton Format:  Audio Genre:  Science Fiction/ Fantasy Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback | Audio  Synopsis:  It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain t...