Wil Wheaton
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"The celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd revisits his 2004 collection of insightful and humorous blog posts, presents additional later writings, and offers all new material in which he opens up about his life, from his abusive childhood to finding his true purpose." --
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Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other...
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Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS 1,000 times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest - a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize....
4) Rent-a-Pal
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While seeking a romantic partner through a video dating service, a lonely bachelor discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-a-Pal, where he discovers a new friendship which comes at a hefty price.
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
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13 CDs (15 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero?s island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." On a seemingly ordinary...