Ready Player One

This books reads as an excuse for relieving the golden age of the 80s. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just not my thing.

The year is 2044, and the creator of the Word of Warcraft equivalent died and left his fortune for whomever finds an Easter egg inside the virtual world he created.

Life is shitty in the future, and pretty much everyone uses it this virtual world to escape reality. Its popularity is so great that it even replaces a proper education in physical schools (which are pretty much gone from underfunding).

Anyway, in order to find the easter egg, people have to find clues in the pop culture of the 80s era. So people just start talking and dressing like the 80s. They watch 80s sitcoms, play 80s Atari games, etc. The person with most knowledge of the 80s culture will most likely be able to find the clues to discover the prize.

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