Thank you delekkerste for this recommendation!
Ready Player One was everything you say, and then some. Pure fun, great characters, and an ultra-cool adventure.
On one of the Quest "puzzles", I read right past it, moving along...
Not even thinking, an answer just popped into my mind from nowhere. Later on, when the solution was revealed, it made me feel extra-nerdy (and old) that I somehow guessed right.
Anyway, thanks again. It was a real treat. (thumbs u
I wish I had never read that book, so I could go back and read it again for the first time. Anyone who grew up in the late 70s or early 80s flat out needs to get it. So good.
Right now I am working my way through DarkMarket, an account of how credit card crackers/hackers made millions of dollars with cutting edge cybercrime. Also reading The Monster Show, an overview of horror in cinema, and Cavalier and Clay, because I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror anymore as a comic collector who hadn't read it.
This post intrigued me. Bought and just read chapter one of Ready Player One. Excellent so far.
1st/1st of Ready Player One is durned expensive and hard to find! Damn my collecting obsession!
I'd like to read it...