Writing style
Conversational · Descriptive · Direct
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Science fiction
- First published
- 2011
- Print length
- 374 pagesBroadway Paperbacks, 2011
Description
In 2045, eighteen-year-old Wade Watts lives in the impoverished trailer stacks of Oklahoma City and escapes into the OASIS, a global virtual-reality world. When its late creator leaves his fortune and control of the system to whoever can find a hidden Easter egg, Wade enters a hunt built from riddles, games, films, and other artifacts of 1980s culture. As the avatar Parzival, he deciphers the first clue and suddenly becomes famous, drawing him toward rival hunter Art3mis and into the sights of IOI, a corporation determined to seize and commercialize the OASIS. The contest turns digital nostalgia into a struggle over friendship, identity, economic power, and who will govern the world where much of humanity now lives.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Hopeful · Playful · Suspenseful
Structure
Linear
Focus
Plot · Relationships · World
Emotional intensity
3 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Series
Oasis · Book 1
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Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Broadway Paperbacks
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307887443
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