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<p>Since my kids were born my life changed a lot. I&#8217;m sure all parents say those words sooner or later, because being a parent changes a lot of things in the way we organize our life.<br />
In my case I lost track of at least 6 years of various fandoms, this is not a joke.<br />
Besides the typical blockbuster movies, series or very famous books I lost some pearls or in this case a true diamond.</p>



<p><em>Ready Player One</em> is a novel that touches a lot of my favorite things and fandoms. It also portraits online friendships in a way which I totally understand.<br />
It&#8217;s an ode to the 80&#8217;s and a great one at that, it also doesn&#8217;t sugarcoat some old and new problems of our society.<br />
I can&#8217;t write more or I&#8217;ll spoil it and believe me, I don&#8217;t want to do that.</p>



<p>I devoured the US version in two days and I truly wish it was bigger, luckily there are rumors of a second book in the works. Plus a movie will be out next year, so in a way I&#8217;m happy I was living under a rock and only knew about <em>Ready Player On</em>e some weeks ago.<br />
To redeem myself I already ordered the US version of <em>Armada</em> another book from&nbsp;<a title="Ernest Cline" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cline">Ernest Cline</a>.<br />
Curious fact, the Ready Player Two and Ready Player Three web domains are reserved&#8230;just saying. 🙂<br />
Fun fact,&nbsp;<a title="Andy Weir" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Weir">Andy Weir</a>&nbsp;the author of the novel&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;Martian</em> wrote a short story called <em>Lacero</em>&nbsp;which is now canon in the universe of Ready Player One and was published in the 2016 edition of the book. \m/</p>
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