The Oasis is a virtual reality landscape called the Oasis. It originally started as a big collection of virtual planets that people could go to and they could get cool avatars, spaceships. There's this giant corporate monster that has tried to get control of the Oasis a couple times but just can't through normal business or legal means. The person who finally figures it out is our protagonist is real name was Wade his internet avatar name is Parzaval but we're just going to call him Wade because Parzavals is a stupid name.
Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narrowness of the characters' "exhaustive" knowledge of 80s popular culture, and why the critical response to this book has shifted so much in just a few short years.
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