Just finished 'Ready Player One'...

and I want more! Any books that are simular? I heard 'Snow Crash' is pretty good. Giantbomb book club anyone?

Haven't read Snow Crash yet but I found the Neal Stephenson books I have read to be very enjoyable, so sure. Go for it.

I've been meaning to read that. I hope I'll get around to it soon.

I feel so out of place when people post here what they've read or for recommendations. I only read fantasy novels in the vein of Drizzt and such and feel that I need to "broaden" my library to feel intelligent.

I've read Snow Crash a few times, it's a classic. The diamond age, though not cyber at all, is fucking hilarious. Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive were also rad.

I recently got a copy of Cloud Atlas and so far it's pretty good. The story does jump around...a LOT so be warned.

The Ready Player One audiobook is worth it for Will Wheaton's read alone. He killed it.

@jerseyscum said:

I recently got a copy of Cloud Atlas and so far it's pretty good. The story does jump around...a LOT so be warned.

The Ready Player One audiobook is worth it for Will Wheaton's read alone. He killed it.

Aren't they making that into a movie?

What is it about? I wikid it but it didn't really make sense.

@jerseyscum said:

I recently got a copy of Cloud Atlas and so far it's pretty good. The story does jump around...a LOT so be warned.

The Ready Player One audiobook is worth it for Will Wheaton's read alone. He killed it.

How does he handle his "cameo" in the book?

Just going off wikipedia pages here, but the Otherland series seems like it might be similar. Has the whole running around in a virtual world vibe.

@jerseyscum: I agree. Wil Wheaton did a damn fine job of it.

@Aegon said:

@jerseyscum said:

I recently got a copy of Cloud Atlas and so far it's pretty good. The story does jump around...a LOT so be warned.

The Ready Player One audiobook is worth it for Will Wheaton's read alone. He killed it.

How does he handle his "cameo" in the book?

Plays it straight. He's only mentioned for like half a second.

@NlGHTCRAWLER said:

@jerseyscum said:

I recently got a copy of Cloud Atlas and so far it's pretty good. The story does jump around...a LOT so be warned.

The Ready Player One audiobook is worth it for Will Wheaton's read alone. He killed it.

Aren't they making that into a movie?

What is it about? I wikid it but it didn't really make sense.

I'm so far clueless. The book jumps very abruptly between characters, which are separated centuries apart. It feels like a not horrible version of The Fountain.

@jerseyscum: So like.... Crash. But x's 100.

That sounds confusing.

Snow Crash is a freaking great book that freaking explodes in style.

@EricFine:

Read Snow Crash. If you're into that, read Cryptonomicon. If you're into that, read Quicksilver.

Stephenson's novels get crazier and crazier to newer they are.

@ck1nd said:

I feel so out of place when people post here what they've read or for recommendations. I only read fantasy novels in the vein of Drizzt and such and feel that I need to "broaden" my library to feel intelligent.

Read Snow Crash ;)

Buy if you're into R.A. Salvatore's style, maybe check out State of Decay by James Knapp.

Whether you love or hate either of those, I'm sure the duders here can recommend something else.

Ben Reeves from GameInformer just published a murder mystery thingy.  I think it's Kill Screen.

When iBooks first came out, I got a free book called MetaGame by Sam Landstrom. I feel like it's similar to Ready Player One, not so much because of the video game references, but because of the "real-life becomes like an mmo" thing that that book had going on.

@Ravenlight: Cool, I appreciate the recommendations. I've got like (15?) Audible credits bottled up so I'll try out State of Decay on Audio-book :D

@NlGHTCRAWLER said:

@jerseyscum: So like.... Crash. But x's 100.

That sounds confusing.

It's not really like Crash which is kinda the worst. I'm reading it too and would actually say it's better the less you know going into it. It's jumps in time/characters are also jumps through genres/styles of writing and it's pretty exhilarating seeing his writing change from section to section. I wouldn't call it confusing. Certainly more straightforward than stuff like Pynchon, Joyce or Faulkner.

@jerseyscum said:

@NlGHTCRAWLER said:

@jerseyscum said:

I recently got a copy of Cloud Atlas and so far it's pretty good. The story does jump around...a LOT so be warned.

The Ready Player One audiobook is worth it for Will Wheaton's read alone. He killed it.

Aren't they making that into a movie?

What is it about? I wikid it but it didn't really make sense.

I'm so far clueless. The book jumps very abruptly between characters, which are separated centuries apart. It feels like a not horrible version of The Fountain.

That's very funny because the trailer kind of looks like a The Fountain downgrade.

I would recommend checking out The Quantum Thief if you liked Ready Player One. Also Snow Crash \m/

@shinboy630 said:

Just going off wikipedia pages here, but the Otherland series seems like it might be similar. Has the whole running around in a virtual world vibe.

I've read the first three (I think) books in that series. It's very rich and detailed. Each book is like a 1000+ pages, if I remember correctly. There seem to be a shit load of references I missed though. I'd say it's more fantasy than scifi/cyber thriller.

Also, the Otherland MMO

Snow Crash is vastly superior.

I would also suggest The Diamond Age. Both by Stephenson.