Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of Books and a Beat.
This week my teaser comes from Ready Player One by Ernest Cline which I’m around halfway through. This is one of those books I feel like I should have read ages ago but I was put off by the fact that it’s science fiction and I don’t always have the best relationship with that genre. Suffice to say the first 70 pages were a real struggle but I’m finding it easier going now. Anyway the teaser…
My Teaser
OK, on second thought, maybe honesty isn’t the best policy after all. Maybe it isn’t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he’s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.
~ page 18, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Blurb
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune — and remarkable power — to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved — that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt — among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life — and love — in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
Happy reading everyone.
A Bookish Life 
Wow, this is definitively something I can like! Thanks for sharing – here’s mine: http://earthianhivemind.net/2016/10/04/teaser-tuesday-october-4/
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Have you not read it? I thought I was the last 🙂
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I LOVED this book–hope you are enjoying it!
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Getting more into it now I’m halfway through. It just gets that little bit too geeky for me occasionally but I love the 80s references
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I love that quote, but I’m not sure about the blurb… I think I must be like you – not too into science fiction. Do you think this is one that I should try out?
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It took me a while to get into but enjoying for the most part now. Not quite at the love stage yet but it definitely has a lot of 5 star reviews. Will let you know when I finish it:)
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LOVED the teaser – and the books sounds interesting too.
My teaser this week: https://collinesblog.com/2016/10/04/teaser-tuesday-the-murderers-daughter/
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Ooo… this one sounds like up my alley – many thanks for sharing, Ali:)). This is my offering
https://sjhigbee.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/teaser-tuesday-4th-october-2016/
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I was thinking as I was reading that this would be perfect for you. I’m actually surprised you haven’t already read it 🙂
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Reading the blurb – I’m surprised I haven’t already read it, too! Thank you for sharing:)
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Sounds like a blockbuster.
Mine this week from The Girl from the Sea: https://wp.me/p3Nz8P-Wu
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I came across this somewhere recently and the cover really intrigued me. Had to go check it out. I think I’ll enjoy it.
My TT from Putting On The Witch
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I have seen so many people reading this right now! Looks so awesome! Here’s my teaser: https://booksbeforebandaids.com/2016/10/04/teaser-tuesday-october-4/
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Great teaser. I really enjoyed this book. My teaser this week comes from the latest Otherworld anthology – Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong. Happy reading!
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I’m not particularly a scifi fan, either, but I’d probably read this one based on your teaser. Here’s the link to my teaser and intro: http://wp.me/p4DMf0-1jv
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It’s weird. Some of my favourite books are sci-fi (hunger games, divergent) but it does tend to be a genre I avoid.
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Great teaser! I will be looking forward to your review… I haven’t read this one either even though people keep recommending it to me.
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I kept hearing about it so picked it up on a whim when I spotted it in the library. I have now finished and can say I enjoyed but didn’t love but then I’m not video game mad.
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I’m probably going to end up having similar feelings if I decide to get a copy… Somehow I feel I won’t be getting every reference mentioned in the book.
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Movies were fine but while I was a child of the 80s I didn’t play any Atari so didn’t recognise games other than pacman:)
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