I am reading a book called Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I am currently 119 pages in out of about 400 pages. The story starts with a contest on a virtual reality system called OASIS. OASIS is kind of like Google Earth, but much more complex. You get a visor (which make it seem you are actually there), and heptic gloves (which allow you feel inside the OASIS). The contest was made by the same person who made OASIS a mad, but brilliant person named James Halliday. When he died the contest was released giving away his fortune of a billion dollars and some gold up for grabs, but there's a catch... You have to find it. With more than a million worlds to explore this is going to be a hard treasure hunt. There are three keys up to obtain, the keys are the copper key, the jade key, and the crystal key. But you must find the copper key first, and here's the riddle. "The Copper Key awaits explorers in a tomb filled with horrors But you have to learn if you hope to earn a place among high scorers". When the main character Mr.Wade whose OASIS name is Parzival (named after the person who found the holy grail) deciphers the riddle he's astonished. He finds out he has being going to the that planet every day. Ludos a planet where you can go for k-12 . He deciphers the riddle mostly by the part where it says "but you have to learn if you hope to earn a place among high scorers", and what better place to learn then Ludos! Eventually Parzival finds the way to the tomb and goes in. He finds himself approached by Acererak an enemy in the Dungeons and Dragons game a "tomb filled with horrors". Instead of having Parzival (a weak level four warrior) fight him he faces him in the '80s game joust (a game where you ride a bird and try to knock each other off into a lava pit). Best two out of three games Parzival loses the first, but comes back to win the other two. Parzival then obtains the copper key with only two more keys to get the competition is about to get fierce. So far I think this is a well written book with lots of things to be interested in. He makes it like you feel like in the story with him, and it just really sucks you in. I think the author wrote this to inspire new ideas and to really make us think what is to come with future technology. So far I think the theme is about not giving up and to just pursue your dreams. The two main characters so far are Parzival and Aech. Aech is Parzivals' best friend and also a rival gunter (what the treasure hunters are called in the book). Right now both characters haven't really changed or grown yet. A cool quote is "The moment I started looking for the keys my life wasn't so bleak". I think that is a cool quote because this is really when Parzival finds his real purpose in life. I am curious about what inspired the author to write this book and what kept him motivated.
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