READY PLAYER ONE (Unabridged Audio) / Ernest Cline / 374 Pages

The unabridged, audio edition of Ernest Cline's debut novel, Ready Player One, is read by Wil Wheaton, blogger, voice actor, and well-known as 'Wesley Crusher' in TV's Star Trek: the Next Generation. Wheaton delivers the first-person, trivia-packed narrative with humor and enthusiasm giving the listener a vivid picture of the world in 2044.

For the last five years, teenager Wade Watts has been hunting for three keys which will bring fame, fortune, and control of the OASIS, the virtual world everyone links to in order to escape the dreariness of the reality.

Puzzles and pop culture references to video games, movies, and TV shows from the 1980's bring a futuristic world to life and make a compelling story fun and entertaining.

APPEAL TERMS: Funny, action-packed, detailed

A '6 DEGREES OF READING' connection: Neuromancer by William Gibson introduces a dystopian future world and Case, a disconnected virtual hacker.

[6 Degrees of Reading is similar to the game '6 degrees of Kevin Bacon' but with books. Select an aspect of the current title which is shared in another title and describe the connection using a single sentence.  Source : http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/ranews/mar2007/cords.html]