Ali gives away a copy of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One to a viewer who comments with their Instagram username (2019)
ask · status: asked in 2019; no response reported · last event: asked (2019-09-24) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali gives away a copy of Alex Banayan's The Third Door to a viewer who comments with their Instagram username (2019)
About: Ready Player One, Instagram
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-24 | asked | Ali gives away a physical copy of Ready Player One that he bought just to give away: viewers who want it comment with anything plus their Instagram username, and next month (October 2019) he will pick one and post the book. | Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 00:03:57 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — recommendation: Ali recommends Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One: he first watched the film and absolutely loved it, then read the book, which he also absolutely loved. — 00:00:58
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — Ali took about two nights to finish Ready Player One, staying up until about 4 a.m. both nights. — 00:00:58
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — Ali's rating for books runs from good up to "really, really, really good", the grade for a book that keeps him up until four in the morning; Ready Player One earned it. — 00:00:58
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — Ali: Ready Player One is set in a future of pollution and city slums, where almost everyone spends their life in a realistic virtual-reality game invented by James Halliday, because it is far better than real life. — 00:01:31
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — Ali: The premise of Ready Player One: when James Halliday dies, he announces that he has hidden an Easter egg in his virtual world, the OASIS, and that the first to find it will inherit his fortune and his company. — 00:02:00
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — Ali: Ready Player One follows Wade on his quest for Halliday's Easter egg, meeting other hunters along the way, against an evil corporation that wants the egg first. — 00:02:30
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — Ali calls Ready Player One a really nice coming-of-age story with a little romance, adventure, action, mystery and suspense, and says it is just absolutely sick. — 00:02:59
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — recommendation: Ali: The book and the film of Ready Player One are surprisingly different, Ali says; he would read the book first and watch the film afterwards. — 00:02:59