Bubble Pipe Theater

Bubble Pipe Theater

Bubble Pipe Theater is a Geek Culture podcast that started on Top Hat Sasquatch and led to the creation of the Bubble Pipe Network. In each episode the hosts discuss the important things in life, like superheroes, talking animals, video games, and their current obsessions. Bubble Pipe Theater is a podcast for kids who never really grew up but like to sit around and pretend to have intelligent conversations.

Episode 13 – Ready Player One

February 1st, 2012

Ready Player One is a futuristic novel by Ernest Cline (writer of Fanboys) that presents a dismal future in which most of the population spend all the time inside a vast virtual world called the OASIS. The eccentric inventor of the game was obsessed with 80s pop culture. Upon his death he devised a game to pass off his massive fortune to someone who could beat a series of challenges designed to test the player’s knowledge of the geeky bits of culture he was so obsessed with. Join Rob, Tim, and Tommy as they discuss the book, including spoilers, and try to decide if the pop culture references make the book unique or ruin the whole story.

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Show Notes

Hosts:

  • rob-lammle
  • tim-briscoe
  • tommy-day

Guests:

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  • http://www.saturnday.net Yanni

    If I was only going to recommend one book from 2011, it would probably be Ready Player One. This was a fun, light read. However, I’m a librarian* so I can’t just recommend one book. If you read this and like it, read REAMDE by Neal Stephenson next. Not as light (and certainly much thicker) and way less thick on the pop-culture references it’s still quite an excellent read and if you like one you’ll probably like the other.

    *I don’t have an MLS so librarian, not Librarian.