Lucas Stoffel

"The Game" Book Preview: Coming 2027 the sequel to How To Win a Million Dollars and $#!T Glitter comes the Book Where He Finally Gets on the Island... in Every Timeline Except This One) Luke Stoffel applied to a reality show fourteen times. By application six, he was delusional. By application ten, he was a folk hero to his mailman. By application fourteen, he was the kind of person other people describe at parties using the phrase "bless his heart."

Ready Player One is literary junk food, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. Ernest Cline wrote a book that is basically a love letter to every video game, movie, TV show, and song from the 1980s, wrapped it inside a dystopian treasure hunt, and somehow made it work as a genuine page-turner. It should not be this fun. It is this fun.