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Armada

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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Zack Lightman is a dreamer. He fills his days with wishful thoughts of life on other planets and spends hours playing videogames, neither of which have helped him make friends or find a girlfriend. His refuge from the daily disappointments of life is Armada - an online space-fighter simulator based on defending Earth from an alien invasion. It’s when he’s playing that he feels closest to his father, a champion gamer who died when Zack was a baby.

He rises up the ranks until there’s only one other player who can challenge his worldwide supremacy. As he closes in on his ultimate enemy, the game suspiciously shuts down, leading Zack to investigate the many urban legends and myths that surround Armada. What he finds will take him beyond his wildest dreams.

The game was just the beginning....

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I was surprisingly swept up by ready player one, i am a child of the eighties and felt the drawn parallels of that era with the future timeline of RPO were fairly well done but oh my god are they forced in this book and it does it a disservice. Everything including the adult characters are sooo juvenile. Really let down by Zak's dad. Vance was like a villain plucked right from ANY video game or 80's/90's movie, virtually no depth and I'm being generous. The thing at the end, oooohhhh please!, I'm trying to save spoilers but I really want to save people the disappointment if I'm honest.

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Not a patch on the stellar Ready Player One; I kept waiting for the thin premise to pan out into something more awesome but it never really happened. The main character points out and lambasts regular scifi tropes and cliches during the story but the book actually falls into most of these traps itself.

Having said all that, I did enjoy it and cared about the characters, it just didn't blow me away conceptually like Ready Player One did.

Enjoyable but slightly disappointing

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First off it's great. A rip roaring yarn that Wil embodies 100% no person on earth should or could read this book

This books nerdfo is so strong that it feels a little bogged down at times. Roll with it and it will leave you more satisfied than a pan galactic gargle blaster.

Amazing but....

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enjoyed this book just wish it was longer
look forward to his next work . enjoy the pop culture references

liked it

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Ernest Cline delivers with another easy to read, fun story. Let's be honest though, this book sits in the shadow of the excellent 'Ready Player One' and suffers for it.

This book is more of the same geekiness from the previous novel, and is packed to the gunnels with references and quotes from classic sci-fi films and games, yet the setting somehow makes this seem less natural and more shoehorned in. As a result the prose feels slightly awkward. That all said, I have really enjoyed listening to its geeky 'nonsense' during my daily commute!

Will Wheaton's enthusiasm explodes out of the book and serves to spark your imagination, taking you straight off to another time, another life, another world... His voice has this unique charisma which charges you up and makes you keep going longer, just like a Duracell bunny! He is a perfect narrator for this and I hope to come across more of his work.

Wheaton-mania! it's contagious!

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