[NewChief]

Almost through Ready Player One.

This is a must-read for about half of ChiefsPlanet (those of us who actually fondly remember the geek boom of the 80s, especially). Constant riffing on geek subculture of the past and today throughout the book. Let's put it this way:

Early in the book, the protagonist is looking for easter eggs in the virtual world (that's the whole premise of the novel: rich uber creator of virtual world dies and leaves forture to those who can find his easter eggs in said world). Protagonist ends up playing through a virtually-created environment based on the legendarily tough AD&D module, Tomb of Horrors, culminating in him playing the arcade classic, Joust, against the "boss" of the lich from Tomb of Horrors, Acererak, in order to uncover an easter egg. Ridiculous fun. Sadly, the niche for this novel will be regretably small.