September 17th Book Discussion

First off, thanks to everyone who came and discussed Ender's Game last night.  I enjoyed the discussion, and I hope you all did too.

We will be reading and discussing critically acclaimed "Ready Player One", by Ernest Cline.  Ready Player One was released August 16, 2011, and was one of Amazon's Best Books of August, 2011.  It was also a New York Times and national best seller.

The amazon.com review reads:

Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday’s fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline.

--Chris Schluep


The next meeting will be September 17th, at 5:30 pm.  Each subsequent meeting will be on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 5:30 pm.  The aim is to alternate between genre classics and titles hot off the shelves.  Please contact Doug Kolpien (419-874-3135 x106) if you are interested in participating.