This is a quick book summary of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This channel discusses and reviews books, novels, and short stories through drawing...poorly.
Transcript: This is a story about a young man named Wade, who lives in a futuristic Oklahoma City where the problems of the world are so bad that most of the population turns to an online simulation video game called the OASIS. The creator of the OASIS, a man named Halliday, dies and challenges the entire world to find a hidden Easter egg in his game in order to inherit his wealth by finding three keys and entering three gates through the OASIS universe. Wade lives in a trailer with his aunt and extended family, but keeps his most valuable belongings in a secret hiding place inside an abandoned junkyard. As a gunter, a nickname for anyone searching for the Easter egg, Wade enters the OASIS world as his avatar named Parzival.
Wade hangs out in the OASIS world with a gunter named Aech, his friend who has helped him learn trivia about the 1980s to help find the Easter egg. Wade is awarded a Copper key after defeating a skeleton king at an old video game in a secret cave. As Wade is leaving the cave, he runs into a famous gunter named Art3mis. They talk and just as Wade leaves, she traps him temporarily and tells him that she knows he got the key because his name appeared on a worldwide scoreboard.
Wade travels to a planet that looks like Halliday’s childhood town where he is placed in a virtual movie simulation and must act out the parts of the main character. Wade passes through the First Gate and his score increases on the scoreboard. Meanwhile, Art3mis finds the Copper Key. As Wade tries to find the Jade key, he receives a request to meet with Innovative Online Industries, a corporation trying to find the Easter egg with the help of hired avatars called Sixers, in hopes to take over the OASIS world.
Wade meets with the chief of operations of IOI, a man named Sorrento, and refuses to offer help for money. Sorrento reveals that IOI knows his secret identity and threatens to kill him and his family. Wade refuses the final offer and a bomb destroys his aunt’s trailer, killing his family and neighbors. Wade spends all the money he has left to move to Columbus, the location of the OASIS headquarters.
Wade calls a meeting with the other four gunters who are on the scoreboard - Art3mis, Aech, Daito, and Shoto - to warn them that IOI might go after them. Wade becomes romantically interested in Art3mis, but when he expresses his love for her, she backs away, wanting to spend more time finding the Easter egg. Wade grows depressed over the split with Art3mis until one day the scoreboard updates as Art3mis takes first place by finding the Jade Key. Wade thinks he knows where the Jade key is and flies to a planet filled with old arcade cabinets. He finds an unusual Pac Man machine and gets a high score, which rewards him with a mysterious quarter. However, the scoreboard updates again as Aech has found the Jade key, moving him to second place overall.
Aech sends Wade a clue to help him and Wade finds the Jade Key. Daito is killed in the OASIS game and in real life by IOI agents. Soon, IOI Sixers swarm the planet for the Jade Key and their scores climb the scoreboard. However, as Wade thinks about finding the Second Gate, Sorrento’s score climbs to first place as he completes the Second Gate. Then Sorrento’s score rises again as he finds the Crystal Key, the last key.
Wade completes the Second Gate and gets the Crystal Key. He then sends the information to Art3mis, Aech, and Shoto. However, IOI surrounds the planet where the Third Gate is so no one can get inside. In real life, Wade’s apartment is raided and he is arrested by IOI agents for not paying his bills. Wade is taken and processed as a tech specialist for IOI. Once inside IOI, he hacks into their system and retrieves all the information IOI has on Halliday and each of the top gunters.
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