This book is about Wade, a young person in 2044th On Earth, there are many problems such as famines and widespread poverty. But there is the "OASIS", a computer game in which you everyone and everything can be, into the refuge, a large part of humanity. It even goes so far that many people spend all the time in the OASIS, where they do not sleep. As the inventor of OASIS, James Halliday dies, he leaves behind some pretty difficult to solve puzzles in a computer game. On the one who finds the hidden "egg", wait control of OASIS and the whole property Hallidays. Almost all players of OASIS agree then for seekers of the egg, but for years these occur on the spot. Then Wade stumbles literally on the first key the puzzle and he needs to see thousands of (non-hazardous) competitors faced. Soon the game takes on dimensions that even Wade threaten "real" life.
First: This book is not just for gamers! ;) I myself am no player, but I was captivated by this book the first page. Although the book is set 90% in the OASIS, but it's all so good and erklärkt so realistic that you are excited as a human being without a computer game skills. It is written from the perspective of the protagonist calf, which is very interesting as it is the first player to find the first "key" and a humorous way has to report things. Moreover, it is quite conceivable that our future (some anyway) might look like in terms of the OASIS so. I can only repeat that this book is a truly remarkable good book, which is not boring and I can recommend everyone to read this book again. Have lots of fun with it! :)
