Tuesday's Intro and Teaser

FFT is hosted by Diane of Bibliophile By the Sea where we share the opening paragraph of our current read to see if others would read the book based on that first paragraph.  Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

My brother went to a book reading/signing for this book and sent me a copy. He had read it on his iPad and said it was one of the best books he's read this year. The narrator, Wil Wheaton, of the audiobook was there as well.

"Everyone my age remembers where they were doing when they first heard about the contest. I was sitting in my hideout watching cartoons when the news bulletin broke in on my videofeed, announcing that James Halliday had died during the night. I’d heard of Halliday, of course. Everyone had. He was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer on-line game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis. The unprecedented success of the OASIS had made Halliday one of the wealthiest people in the   world. At first, I couldn’t understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire’s death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: “dogs and cats living together . . . mass hysteria!”



Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading.