{"id":301,"date":"2011-10-13T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoinreads\/?p=301"},"modified":"2017-11-07T20:37:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:37:59","slug":"carly-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2011\/10\/13\/carly-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading <i> Ready Player One<\/i> by Ernest Cline and already I can\u2019t wait to go back and read it again. It is the perfect book for the self -proclaimed \u201cgeek\u201d or pop-culture junkie. It\u2019s riddled with references to famous movies, songs, and television shows, especially those from the eighties.<\/p>\n<p>Ready Player One is set in a future world where things have gotten so bad that most of the population spends all of their time in a utopian virtual reality called the Oasis, the brain child of the extremely wealthy James Halliday. Upon his death, Halliday issues a challenge stating that whoever can find the Easter egg he has hidden in the Oasis inherits his company and his fortune. The catch is that all of the clues are related to pop culture from Halliday\u2019s favorite decade, launching a worldwide obsession with researching his life and all things related to the eighties.<\/p>\n<p>The book follows underdog Wade (a.k.a. Parzival) on his quest to decipher Halliday\u2019s clues and find the Easter egg. This book is perfect for pop-culture buffs or anyone looking for a fun read. I couldn\u2019t put it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and already I can\u2019t wait to go back and read it again. It is the perfect book for the self -proclaimed \u201cgeek\u201d or pop-culture junkie. It\u2019s riddled with references to famous movies, songs, and television shows, especially those from the eighties. Ready Player One is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2011\/10\/13\/carly-coleman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carly Coleman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}