Initial Impressions 10/6/12: This was the totally perfect book to nerd out to. I got the audio version because I heard that Wil Wheaton's narration is great and I was not let down in any way! I loved the 80s references - I didn't quite get all of them since I was a 90s kid, but it was still so much fun to see the connections and there were so many funny moments. 
 Full review originally posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide: I absolutely loved READY PLAYER ONE. It was geeky to the core and it was awesome. The endless 80s references were a blast and really even though I'm just a little young to appreciate ALL of them (I was a child of the 90s, after all). It didn't really matter that some were over my head because the book was so enjoyable all around! It was funny, it had serious action, a romance, suspense, death, battles, intrigue. It was so well written that I can easily see anyone enjoying it, even if you're wary of the 80s theme being a little out of your norm. 
 Another thing I hadn't expected is really enjoying the fact that it's so integrated into video games and computer culture. Honestly, I've never been a video game person. I'm not good at them (I get way too stressed out haha) and I don't really know much about them, but if you don't know, all of the older games are explained for you. I was easily sucked into that world and didn't really feel like all of it was going over my head at all. Ernest Cline does a great job to make sure that anyone who reads the book will be able to not only understand what's going on, but enjoy it. I also think it was great the way everyone interacts in the Oasis because it allows for a lot more action sequences like battles and quests as well as magic, because that's a lot more easily explained as a computer game than it is occurring in real life. I got totally sucked in to the world of the Oasis, so much so that at times I forgot that the Oasis wasn't actually real and the characters were still out there somewhere in the real world even though their "real" world is essentially the Oasis since they spend so much time there.