I listened to Ready Player One by Ernest Cline on audiobook. I want to start by saying that I really loved Wil Wheaton as a narrator. He was the perfect choice for this book, and if I was only rating based on him I would have given 5 stars.

Ready Player One tells a story set in 2045 when reality is an ugly place. Wade Watts is a teenager who spends more time logged into the OASIS, a virtual reality utopia, rather than in the real world. He even attends high school in the OASIS. Wade has devoted his life to find a hidden egg that the creator left before he passed away. Throughout the book, there are different challenges to get to the egg all based on 1980's pop culture. For someone who grew up in the 80's this book was so nostalgic for me. There are so many references to video games, movies, and music from this decade that it totally brought me back. The book was fun and well written. It actually made a dystopian world seem like a much more fun place than I assume it really is.

For me, there were some parts that were a little long and drawn out which is why I gave 4 out of 5 stars. This is not the normal type of book that I read though so keep that in mind. I'm definitely looking for Ready Player One, #2 to come out once Ernest Cline is finished writing it. Hopefully Wil Wheaton will narrate that one as well.