I grew up in Oklahoma, where the book starts out - in the 80's... I keep meaning to research the background of the author, because it reads like we may have crossed paths...

I found out about it when a childhood friend messaged me on facebook saying:

Have you read Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline? Fucking insane, almost like we commissioned our own private SciFi novel.

Only about a quarter of the way in, and a kid from a trailer park in Oklahoma City is playing Joust against an old D&D demon in a virtual world I. The year 2040. Drop whatever you are doing and read this book!

This book Ready Player One just sucked me in and spit me out like a true nerdgasm. Holy shit.

I got it on audible (read by Wil Wheaton) for a long drive I was taking- I found myself finishing many sentences before Wil completed them...

Really creepy-

Very good book, I havent finished it but if you grew up in that era and were the kind of kid that downloaded a random dialer for his atari 800 so he could find open lines like David did in War Games... then the book is for you...