![]() ![]() Wouldn’t it be cheaper for the farmers to set up small houses for their laborers on their farm rather than transport them back and forth every day? and without gasoline to power modern farming equipment, I assume they have to use horses and plows. Am I the only one who sees the problem here?! The novel even says that most people work as day laborers in factory farms. What I don’t get is why the end of fossil fuels leads to overcrowding in cities, after all, it was the industrial revolution that led to urban growth since fewer people were needed to work on farms. If you read my rambling thoughts on dystopias regularly, it won’t surprise you to hear that the world-building as an issue for me. I wasn’t joking above about Wil Wheaton making this audiobook better for me. The protagonist, Wade/Parzival dreamed for a long time about finding the egg. ![]() and yes, you are supposed to forget that a person’s will can be contested in a court of law for unreasonable demands. The creator of the Oasis left a huge prize in his will to whoever finds an easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the Oasis. So the basic idea is that the world runs out of fossil fuels and so now the cities are overcrowded and life sucks and people like to spend their free time in a VR internet system called the Oasis. So I was bracing myself for awful “remember when _ was a thing?!” style references, and this book did not disappoint. Fake 1980’s nostalgia in place of a story. Honestly, that’s what I was most afraid of with this novel. ![]()
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