Dear Dexter I am writing to you to say really you brighten my day, you and me are the same we both are in tune with our dark passenger, well you used t Dear Dexter I am writing to you to say really you brighten my day, you and me are the same we both are in tune with our dark passenger, well you used to be! What happened its seams in this chapter of you're life aptly named 'Dexter in the dark' you're dark passenger is in the dark for a while. Not for me around the same period of year you had written this I was actively in tune with my dark passenger in let's say the most macabre of methods of execution. I unlike you do not prey on the hunters I am the hunter so dear Dexter when you do get back with yourself again good old bad Dexter try and check me out. Well that would be a problem at present, as I have been doing time, a long stretch, I have served up my years behind bars and my release is days away so dear Dexter I might just be paying you a visit. I must applaud you, you're trying hard in this chapter of your life in being a family man but that mask will soon show and when it does you will find yourself in the very place I am. Well still it's fun, it's a playground for you're dark passenger here also, if you know the ropes and don't get caught. I do hope you tie the knot with that lady of yours and hey what are you trying to do with Astor and Cody. Their young and let them be don't try to tune them in with their dark passenger just like your dear step-father had done with you, wake up dexter do what you do best out into the playing field I eagerly await.
Three hidden keys open three secret gates Wherein the errant will be tested for Worthy traits And those with the skill to survive these traits Will r
Three hidden keys open three secret gates Wherein the errant will be tested for Worthy traits And those with the skill to survive these traits Will reach The End where the prize awaits.
James Halliday a video-game designer created The Oasis. It made him one of the wealthiest people in the world. He had no successors to hand down the corporation he built. When he died he left a message to the world, one that called for the finder of 'The Egg' in a video game to gain ownership of OASIS. I am thinking of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Willie Wonka at this point. The worlds best chocolate and sweet maker Willie Wonka, we all know the movie and story. Willie and Halliday are similar in the way that they both wanted someone to succeed their business, Wonka with his Golden Ticket and Halliday with The Egg. That's were the similarity ends Halliday's game is more sinister and the protagonist Wade is a video gamer and computer geek shall we say.
Ready Player One is a about a virtual world and game called OASIS that serves up an escapism from the drag and the mundane of life for a main protagonist Wade. A world in cyberspace where you can create a new you and new identity with an Avatar you can be anyone. Think movies like Matrix, Avatar and recently TV-series Caprica and sit-back and immerse yourself into the 80's and movies like Tron and Wargames and you will get the jist of what sort of story you have before you. Wade's father was an avid comic fan of the Marvel superhero world who has been dead for most of his life, his mother works or OASIS as a telemarketer and as an escort on a online brothel. He lived with his mum in a small RV. The OASIS has an interactive educational program something that could be valuable for us in the future. Wade attends schooling through this in real classes which he needs to obtain grades. While back in the 80's I used to watch The Muppets and Sesame Street, Wade hangs out in a virtual-reality simulation of Sesame Street and sings songs with friendly Muppets.
OASIS is a vast world of information a library of books, movies, television shows, video games and artwork. It fills the gap for some, as life now is a lot tougher in the gamers world than it used to be and seems to be getting worser. The avatar Wade used was called Parzival. OASIS provided an escape for victims of bullying and people like Wade fat and have acne could create their own looks and be free from bullying or name calling. The method of teaching used could be a useful tool to many, those who cannot attend real classes for many reasons including most importantly health problems or disabilities. In his biology class he travelled through a human heart and watched it pumping from the inside, if you remember that movie 'Innerspace' it was very educational. In astronomy he was there virtually visiting Jupiter's moons and many other planets. Accessing OASIS is free, but teleportation and many other luxuries are costly. The OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation) changed the way people around the world lived, worked and communicated. I wonder what the future holds for us here in 2011 Apple is already trying to break into every home.
Back to the game and the Egg and the winning of it. The I.O.I Innovative Online Industries a gaming company are using The Sixers for mischief, their sole purpose is to exploit loopholes in the contest rules. The very soul of OASIS is at stake with The Sixers who want to try to overtake and control OASIS. They wanted to recruit Parzival (Wade), they want this whizz kid and game master to tell them how to find The Copper Key and clear the first gate of the game. The Sixers are very serious and dangerous and will stop at nothing in order to gain their objectives, they will destroy the real world around you as well as the virtual world! Parzival must win, in a world of exploits, backdoors and passwords. Words so common in 2011 in hacking and cracking software. The game has many players, who are all called Gunters the four main players are Parzival himself, Artemis a girl he likes, Aech and Shoto. They find themselves pitted against The Sixers to stop them from finding the egg and winning the contest which would give them power and control and OASIS would fall under the hands of I.O.I imperialistic rule. All gamers and computer geeks and 80's wannabes and those that have been there and got the t-shirt must read this book. This was refreshing and a entertaining read.
The most epic battle in video game history is about to unfold in the pages of Ready Player One!
"Halliday's easter egg eventually moved into the realm of urban legend,
And the ever-dwindling tribe of Gunters gradually became the object of ridicule. Each year on the anniversary of Halliday's death, newscasters joking reported on their continued lack of progress. And each year, more gunners called it quits, concluding that Halliday had indeed made the egg impossible to find. And another year went by. And another. Then, on the evening of February 11th, 2045, an Avatar's name appeared at the top of the scoreboard, for the whole world to see. After five long years, The Copper Key had finally been found, by an eighteen-year old kid living in a trailer park on the outskirts of Oklahoma city. That kid was me. Dozens of books, cartoons, movies and miniseries have attempted to tell the story of everything that had happened next, but every single one of them got it wrong. So I want to set the record straight, once and for all."
Time to sing the praises of the 80s. And there are many.
by danielhwilson on Jun.17, 2011, under Daniel H. Wilson and Ernest Cline
And now the time has come for my last post to Babel Clash. Thanks to Borders for having me, and to the readers for, well, reading. Ernest Cline has been a great partner in crime during my time here, and in his last post he earned my affection for life by dropping some pretty convincing reasons why he loved Robopocalypse.
But let’s be clear, I loved his book before he loved mine.
I got READY PLAYER ONE in the mail as a word document printout a fair while ago. These types of books come pretty regular — folks looking for blurbs. I’m honored to be asked to blurb, but usually don’t. I stick to an old rule: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
When I put down RPO, I started yammering away to everybody I knew.
The book nails the 80s in a personal, fist-pumping, covering-your-face-and-laughing kind of way.
Yeah, I grew up during the 80s. Playing Nintendo and eating Big League Chew and bestowing relatively giant Voltron swords to my most prized GI Joes. We had coffee tables that hung from the ceiling, burnt orange carpets, and quad rollerskates that had yet to be replaced by their fancy inline cousins. Wood paneling ruled supreme as the wall covering of choice.
Cline effortlessly nails these sorts of details, which provide a completely consistent and convincing background to an action-packed adventure that takes place hundreds of years from now. That’s right. People in the future are obsessed with the 1980s.
How in the heck do you use the 80s as the background to a story set in the future? Trust me, Cline pulls it off.
Without ruining anything, RPO tells a treasure hunting story that hinges on knowledge of the 1980s. The protagonist is endearing and the stakes are shockingly lethal. And the world. Oh, the world. It keeps opening up bigger and bigger, in surprising ways and populated by a surprising array of 80s fiction-turned-real. Yeah, there are giant robots really piloted by kids. And yeah, it makes perfect sense once you’re there.
Think of it like this: READY PLAYER ONE is a vintage cherry arcade game lurking in the back corner of a dusty room. You’ve never played it before, but an array of the most amazing badass imagery is flickering across the screen. Step up to it. Don’t be shy. Wipe your hands on your jeans and plug a quarter in there. Trust me, you won’t look back.
Questions for Ernest Cline, Author of Ready Player One
Q) So it seems you’re a bit of a pop-culture buff. In your debut novel Ready Player One you incorporate literally hundreds of pop culture references, many of them in ways that are integral to the book’s plot. What’s the first thing you remember geeking out over?
A)Sesame Street and the Muppets. I thought Jim Henson ruled the universe. I even thought it was pretty cool that I shared my first name with a muppet. Until the first day of kindergarten, when I quickly learned that "Ernie" was not a cool name to have. That was about the time I segued into my next childhood obsession, Star Wars.
Q) Like the book’s hero, you possess a horrifyingly deep knowledge of a terrifyingly broad swathe of culture, ranging from John Hughes movies to super-obscure Japanese animation to 8-bit videogames to science-fiction and fantasy literature to role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. What the heck is wrong with you?! How do you have so much time on your hands?
A) Well, I’m raising a toddler now, so I don’t have as much time to geek out as I used to. I think I amassed a lot of that knowledge during my youth. Like most geeks, I was a sponge for all kinds of movies, TV shows, cartoons, and video games. Then as an adult, I worked at a long series of low paying tech support jobs that allowed me to surf the Internet all day, and I spent a lot of my cubicle time looking up obscure pop culture minutiae from my childhood while I waited for people to reboot their PCs. Of course, I spent most of my off hours geeking out, too. Luckily, all those hours can now be classified as "research" for my novel.
Q) You’re stranded on an island and you can only take one movie with you. What is it?
A) Easy!The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition. (Can I take all of the DVD Extras and Making of Documentaries, too?)
Q) You’re given free tickets and back stage passes to one concert (artist can be living or dead)- who is it and why?
A) Are we talking about time travel back to a specific concert in the past here? Because it would be pretty cool to stand on the roof of Apple Records and watch the Beatles jam up there. But my favorite rock band that’s still together is RUSH, and I just bought tickets to see them this June!
Q) Favorite book of all time.
A) That’s an impossible question! I could maybe give you three favorites:Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Q) Best failed TV show pilot available on Youtube?
A) The unaired Batgirl pilot starring Yvonne Craig.
Q) Favorite episode of Cowboy Bebop?
A) “Ganymede Elegy.” Or maybe “Boogie Woogie Feng Shui.”
Q) What’s the first arcade game you ever played? What’s your favorite?
A) I was deflowered by Space Invaders. My all time favorite coin-op game was probably Black Tiger.
Q) Your idea of the perfect day...
A) Play Black Tiger. Then go see Big Trouble in Little China at the Alamo Drafthouse with Kurt Russell and John Carpenter doing a live Q&A afterwards. When I get home that night, I accidentally invent a cheap abundant clean energy source that saves human civilization. I celebrate by staying up late to watch old Ultraman episodes with my daughter (who loves Ultraman even more than I do).
Q) True or False. We hear you own a DeLorean and that you plan on tricking it out to be a time-travelling, Ghostbusting, Knight-Rider car.
A) False. I actually plan on tricking it out to be a time-traveling Ghostbusting Knight Riding Jet Car. It’s going to have both a Flux Capacitor and an Oscillation Overthruster in it, so that my Delorean can travel through time AND solid matter. My personalized plates are ECTO88, just like a DeLorean that appears in my book.(I’m so glad that you asked this question, because now I can justify buying the car as a "promotional tool" for my book. Everyone reading this is a witness! My DeLorean is helping me promote my book! The fact that I’ve wanted one since I was ten years old is totally irrelevant!)
Q) Speaking of DeLoreans: biggest plot hole in the Back to The Future Films?
A) The Back to The Future Trilogy is perfect and contains no plot holes! Except for the plot hole inherent in nearly all time travel films: The planet Earth is moving through space at an immense speed at all times. So if you travel back in time, you are traveling to a time when the Earth was in a different location, and you and your time machine would appear somewhere out in deep space. For a time machine to be useful, it also needs to be able to teleport you to wherever the Earth was/is at your destination time.
Q) But there are two DeLoreans in 1885--why doesn’t Doc dig out the one he buried in a cave for Marty to find in 1955 and use the gasoline from it to get the other DeLorean up to 88mph?
A) Doc would have drained the gas tank before he stored a car for 80 years, so there wouldn’t have been any gas. And tampering with the DeLorean in the cave at all could conceivably create a universe-ending paradox, because it has to be in the cave for Marty to get back to 1885 in the first place. Totally not a plot hole!
http://more2read.com/?review=robopocalypse-by-daniel-h-wilson There is a New War igniting by the very machines that were serving humans 'Robots.' Is thhttp://more2read.com/?review=robopocalypse-by-daniel-h-wilson There is a New War igniting by the very machines that were serving humans 'Robots.' Is there any hope for the human race and what weapon could match the ability of the artificial intelligence? We had zombies with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and vampires with The Strain nows the time for something new and fresh setting a new trend, evil robots. A writer who has a Ph.D in Robotics has created a gauntlet race of time to a concluding event that will change the path of robots and humans forever. Written in neat chapters of different accounts that chart the unraveling of war from the artificial intelligence Archos, unleashing unrelenting destruction upon humans via it's robots. The writing flows well and does well transferring the words to your thought imagery as you ride along the train as time zero's down to the grand finale. Once i rode on the train i did not want to get off until an outcome is reached in this page turning orchestra of cataclysmic events. You become immersed in the battle for human salvation against the ensuing apocalypse at the hands of the robots. [image]
"The machines are now designing and building themselves. More varieties are coming. We believe that these new robots will have greatly increased agility, survivability, and lethality. They will be tailored to fight your people, in your geographic environment, and in your weather conditions.
Let there be no doubt in your mind that the combined onslaught of these machines, working twenty-four hours a day, will soon be unleashed by Archos on your native land."
Steven Spielberg is working on the movie watch this space for more news as it comes.. [image]
Katniss outsmarted the Hunger Games and she made the Capitol look foolish and consequently undermined His control. There is a rise of a rebellion wit Katniss outsmarted the Hunger Games and she made the Capitol look foolish and consequently undermined His control. There is a rise of a rebellion with a symbol of hope for the Districts through a girl and a Mockingjay. This is Heart warming and touching part of the series and you feel that the best is yet to come, from the way the story is set up for book 3.
"A visit from President Snow. Districts on the verge of uprisings. A direct death threat to Gale, with others to follow. Everyone I love doomed. And who knows who else will pay for my actions? Unless I turn things around on this tour."
" Not only are we in the districts forced to remember the iron grip of the Capitol's power each year, we are forced to celebrate it. And this year, I am one of the stars of the show. I will have to travel from district to district, to stand before the cheering crowds who secretly loathe me, to look down into the faces of the families whose children I have killed... "
" A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist. They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live."
"Katniss, the girl on fire, has left behind her flickering flames and bejeweled gowns and soft candlelight frocks. She is as deadly as fire itself."
" “While you live, the revolution lives.” The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay."
David Mitchell writes in a really masterful style of writing with an excellent command of the English language. This story is split into different intDavid Mitchell writes in a really masterful style of writing with an excellent command of the English language. This story is split into different interlacing parables. There are six different testaments that span several centuries each one breaks a period of time and space. The stories are very interesting but I found as the stories went by nearer to second half of the book I was not fully immersed into the story. So if it lacks in anything this novel is some gripping and immersing element, sometimes I found I did not care enough for the characters due to the changing of testaments, where in one straight testament you would build the audience and glue and bond them to certain characters. But then again that was probably the authors set out task to write in this way, a technique used by Italo Calvino, actually this story written in a similar fashion to one I have read called Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. I loved the character Timothy Cavendish a very English old school character had very funny insight into the world. I loved his take on the underground and London.
"Over an hour later London shunted itself southwards, taking the Curse of the Brother Hoggins with it. Commuters, these hapless souls who enter a lottery of death twice daily on Britain's decrepit railways, packed the dirty train. Aeroplanes circled in holding patterns over Heathrow, densely as gnats over a summer puddle. Too much matter in this ruddy city."
Excerpts "Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides … I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life’s voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds."
"He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
"Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I’ve stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again."
“We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offences just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman’s memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.”
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