You Read It Here First...

My experience with Anna Karenina and Hunger Games is playing out all over again. I was looking forward to a book called Absolute Monarchs, a non-fiction for the layperson about the history of popes. The topic had so much potential, I swear. But I had to give it up and search for something that didn't drain my energy.

And I stumbled on Ready Player One. You read it here first -- when I discovered this book it had 28 reviews on Amazon, all 5 stars. Now it's up to 56. Hunger Games has 2,813 reviews, so let's watch the counter. This book plays to the same audience, and it's just as much fun.

It's a futuristic book about a worldwide virtual reality, and a contest set up by the designer of the program. If you even have a passing interest or history with video games (past, present and future), 1980s pop culture, science fiction, or trends in technology, you've gotta give it a try. I was hooked on page 1, I'm not kidding.