Book · 2011 · Fiction
Ready Player One
#87 of 16,669 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 38
- people
- 21
- podcasts
- 12
- episodes
- 29
- critical mentions
- 0
The book is like full immersion.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2018 Listen at 1:51:00 What they say about it
- Read multiple times“read the book Ready Player One many many times”2
- Compared to the future“look into the future”2
The best things said about it
So those are the ones that stood out for pure entertainment value; I've read the book Ready Player One many, many times, and it's narrated very well.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I love that book as a kid of the 80s and 90s.
If you read Ready Player One, which hopefully the listeners have read, it's canonical VR book.
Well, look, I think I think Ready Player One, both the book and the movie are a great look into the future and how it could be changed by social media and gaming.
If you care to the book which I didn't already player one of the only fiction books I've ever even bothered to go through But I listened to it Will Wheaton the guy from Star Trek reads it.
Brendan Schaub The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2020 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
21 people who brought it up
- Joe Rogan9 mentions · 2 recs
Tim Ferriss2 mentions · 1 rec- Brendan Schaub1 mention · 1 rec
- Dr John Delony1 mention · 1 rec
- Matt Serra1 mention · 1 rec
- Thomas Tull1 mention · 1 rec
- Tiago Forte1 mention · 1 rec
Dave Rubin4 mentions- Ben Bowlin2 mentions
- Tim Pool2 mentions
- Adam Alter1 mention
- Blake Harris1 mention
Why people recommend it
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where people escape their harsh reality by logging into an expansive, 1980s pop-culture-infused virtual reality world called the OASIS. The book has received high praise for its pure entertainment value from numerous prominent figures. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan and Matt Serra discussed their affection for both the film adaptation and the audiobook, with Rogan noting it as a rare fiction book he thoroughly enjoyed. On ChooseFI, a featured guest recommended the novel as an exceptional read, praising its engaging storytelling and stellar audiobook narration. Tiago Forte highlighted the title on Modern Wisdom as a standout modern science fiction favorite that joins the ranks of classic speculative literature. Tim Ferriss briefly recommended the book to listeners interested in virtual reality and future technological trends on The Tim Ferriss Show. Thomas Tull spoke with Lex Fridman about the novel, connecting its vision of fully rendered virtual reality worlds to the evolving concept of the metaverse. Additionally, Dr. John Delony and Brendan Schaub both praised the story, with Schaub specifically commending Will Wheaton's narration of the audiobook version.
Every mention
Joe Rogan my one of my favorite movies is ready play a one and I listen to audio book a little too 9
Discussed
“Ready Player One. Amazing film. I love that movie.”
Recommended
“my one of my favorite movies is ready play a one and I listen to audio book a little too”
Discussed
“have you seen ready player one yeah 100 that and jamie just read the sequel to it um apparently there's an awesome sequel”
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“comparison to something that one day like ready player one of you are familiar with that movie i i've not no i've not played video games”
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“Steven Spielberg if you care to the book which I didn't already player one of the only fiction books I've ever even bothered to go through but I listened to it”
Discussed
“so yeah the ready player one vision that's a real thing that omnidirectional treadmill”
Recommended
“I I've read the book I didn't see the what was it the movie that just Ready Set ready player one, I didn't see I didn't see it, have you read the book the book, I'm like good because the book is like full immersion”
Discussed
“have you ready player one it's about the future its new Spielberg movie that comes out I think Friday about”
Discussed
“yeah the real cool thing I think about the movie which is the plot which doesn't give away much because I have read the book so I don't know it sounds like something that could happen soon”
Tim Ferriss Ready Player One People should take a look at that 2
Discussed
“So, one thing that struck me about Ready Player One, especially in the cinematic version, so the movie itself, is that you have this incredible tactile environment where they're grabbing objects and interacting with objects, feeling impact and so on.”
Recommended
“Ready Player One People should take a look at that”
Brendan Schaub If you care to the book which I didn't already player one of the only fiction books I've ever even bothered… 1
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“If you care to the book which I didn't already player one of the only fiction books I've ever even bothered to go through But I listened to it Will Wheaton the guy from Star Trek reads it”
Dr John Delony ready player one by ernst klein i love that book as a kid of the 80s and 90s 1
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“ready player one by ernst klein i love that book as a kid of the 80s and 90s”
Matt Serra my one of my favorite movies is ready play a one and I listen to audio book a little too it's a great [ __… 1
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“my one of my favorite movies is ready play a one and I listen to audio book a little too it's a great [ __ ] movie”
Thomas Tull if you saw ready player one which i loved the book and and the movie was cool too 1
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“if you saw ready player one which i loved the book and and the movie was cool too”
Tiago Forte Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I d… 1
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“Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I didn't want to believe that the the best ones were the mainstream ones.”
Dave Rubin you were one of the producers of Ready Player One, a movie and a book that I read many many years ago, but… 4
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“you were one of the producers of Ready Player One, a movie and a book that I read many many years ago, but a movie that I reference all the time on this show”
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“so to do a little ready player one on you or something like that I mean is the inherent problem with that is that most people won't ask the right questions when they're going into this world”
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“why would you want to follow Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook into you know basically into Ready Player one if any of you saw the movie or read the book”
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“The black pill is we all end up in "Matrix," "Ready Player One," "Minority Report, "Total Recall."”
Ben Bowlin and ready player one everybody knows they're logging into a thing and they're going online 2
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“fiction is priming as for it too like remember uh ra uh Ready Player One I do yes where I guess it was a lot of the economy then at that point is wrapped up in those Virtual Worlds that are created”
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“and ready player one everybody knows they're logging into a thing and they're going online”
Tim Pool I think it's going to be like a Ready Player One in real life situation. Yeah, but even Ready Player One wa… 2
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“I think it's going to be like a Ready Player One in real life situation. Yeah, but even Ready Player One was just haptic feedback with goggles”
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“Ready Player One the kid lived in a trailer right Traer stacked on top of each other at least at a trailer n in the in in in this your home is going to be a bathroom”
Adam Alter it's a little bit like like the the book and the film ready player one and now ready player two by ernest c… 1
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“it's a little bit like like the the book and the film ready player one and now ready player two by ernest cline”
Blake Harris had ready player one not already wrong 1
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“had ready player one not already wrong”
Chris Dixon We have yeah, we have an investment here in Improbable, um which is I think of as, um you know, if you read… 1
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“We have yeah, we have an investment here in Improbable, um which is I think of as, um you know, if you read Ready Player One, which hopefully the listeners have read, it's canonical VR book.”
Dan Farah Well, look, I think I think Ready Player One, both the book and the movie are a great look into the future… 1
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“Well, look, I think I think Ready Player One, both the book and the movie are a great look into the future and how it could be changed by social media and gaming”
Edward Slingerland but it's so crude in comparison to something that one day like ready player one of you are familiar with th… 1
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“but it's so crude in comparison to something that one day like ready player one of you are familiar with that movie”
Jason Calacanis so you've seen probably the movie ready player one or read the book you'll see how they take up amazing so… 1
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“so you've seen probably the movie ready player one or read the book you'll see how they take up amazing so you see how they take on a completely different form than they are in the real world”
Kyle Russel are we gonna go full ready player one right where they're sitting in a room by themselves 1
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“are we gonna go full ready player one right where they're sitting in a room by themselves”
Mark Zuckerberg There are some that are just classics around this, right? So I don't think at this point anyone who's in th… 1
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“There are some that are just classics around this, right? So I don't think at this point anyone who's in this space would read Ready Player One and Snow Crash.”
Sarah Jones it's very much the Oasis ready player one it's very much that kind of world 1
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“it's very much the Oasis ready player one it's very much that kind of world”
Shaan Puri If you've ever read or watched the movie Ready Player One, it's kind of like, oh, there's a virtual world 1
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“If you've ever read or watched the movie Ready Player One, it's kind of like, oh, there's a virtual world”
Tom Bilyeu I mean again this is basically Ready Player One um I see just people it's not about intelligence per se it'… 1
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“I mean again this is basically Ready Player One um I see just people it's not about intelligence per se it's just human nature people will just go there”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker3
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“For pure entertainment value I've read the book Ready Player One many many times it's actually narrated very well as well”
Recommended
“So those are the ones that stood out for pure entertainment value; I've read the book 'Ready Player One' many, many times, and it's narrated very well.”
Discussed
“have you seen ready player one yeah so I love this movie it's a great movie but there's one thing about at the end of the movie when they finally get control spoiler alert of the what is it I forget what the the world is called well anyway they they gain control of it and they turn it off”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (23: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Yeah, it had to be the inspiration behind the living quarters in Ready Player One. Mhm. Uh if you've ever seen that movie or read the book, when I saw pictures of Kowloon Walled City for the first time I was like oh, looks like Ready Player One.”
Passing
“he collaborated with Steven Spielberg on Ready Player One, which is the big hit, and so on.”
Passing
“and he is ready player one he is the hero of the story he is the only acting person with agency who is acting and creating this Grand Adventure of humanity”
Passing
“looks like the guy who created Oasis in Ready Player one”
Passing
“This is basically Ready Player One. It's not exactly about intelligence per se; it’s about human nature.”
Passing
“and if you've seen Ready Player one or plethora of science fiction movies there's a reason that in some respects the same people who are destroying the natural world are actually trying to usher in that world”
Passing
“um ironically wrote the movie Ready Player one oh he did which talks about Adventure and Easter eggs and all that fun stuff nice”
Passing
“what's his name ER Ernest Klein who wrote the book Ready Player one he showed up in his uh back to the Future”
Passing
“uh that that dude from uh that wrote Ready Player one has got one famously uh with the you know the little rocket boosters on the back and all that fun stuff the flux capacitor oh he's got like the time machine version”
Passing
“i mean just ready player one have you guys seen it or i ready yeah people”
Passing
“you saw ready player one i'm sure right”
Passing
“for those who have seen ready player one you've got the kind of darth vader character who's the ceo of this corporation”
Passing
“Some better, some worse. Some worse. Cough cough. Ready Player One. Yeah.”
Passing
“and then perhaps at the same time or even beforehand watch or re-watch ready player one and certainly there are aspects of it that i don't think are right around the corner”
Passing
“An example that I used, which is for example, you can see it in the movie Ready Player One, where people cross over and they spend most of their time in a in a virtual world is true for many many teenagers.”
Passing
“and i was saying earlier that i'm reading the ready player two in which is the sequel to ready player one where in the new version of the uh the oasis which is this massive virtual reality network that everyone is using in the future”
Passing
“this is the sequel to uh ready player one yeah ready player one was a book they made a movie”
Passing
“jamie didn't you just start reading ready player one”
Passing
“ready player one is a very famous via our book which is nasty is two of us making two movie and I think they're gonna do right”
Passing
“Some ready player one type shit. That's real.”
Passing
“ready player one ready player one have you seen the preview for that”
Passing
“let's say does the idea of having some other form of getting to people sound like are you interested for instance in the like arcade model of set up places at a movie theater where you go see Star Wars Episode eight and here is a Star Wars high in VR experience or here is ready player one here's a”
Speaker a16z Podcast a16z Podcast: Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative 2017-01-27 Listen at 31:28
Passing
“at number four Ernest Klein who previously hit the list with a book called Ready Player one has a new book called Armada”