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Jul 21, 2015
Bill Doughty
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sci-fi,
pop-culture,
avoid-at-all-costs,
space,
fiction,
games,
end-of-the-world,
coming-of-age-angst
At best, it's Ready Player Two... basically his first novel gussied up in new window dressing.
At worst, it's The Last Starfighter crossbred with Hackers, and not in the fun way. Derivative, hokey, awkwardly written fluff that substitutes movie, TV, and game quotes for actual plot development (I have a theory that his next novel will be nothing but quotes, even the exposition). The world can only be saved by gamers (who have NOT been wasting their time after all, Mom) fueled by government supplie ...more
At worst, it's The Last Starfighter crossbred with Hackers, and not in the fun way. Derivative, hokey, awkwardly written fluff that substitutes movie, TV, and game quotes for actual plot development (I have a theory that his next novel will be nothing but quotes, even the exposition). The world can only be saved by gamers (who have NOT been wasting their time after all, Mom) fueled by government supplie ...more
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Zack Lightman is super into gaming, in particular a game called Armada, which centers around an alien invasion of Earth. Players get to control various battle drones and ships to stave off the alien attack. So it is understandable that Zack thinks he’s losing his mind when he sees a spaceship exactly like those in Armada flying around outside his school window. But nope, the aliens are real and the game developers created the game, in ...more
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Zack Lightman is super into gaming, in particular a game called Armada, which centers around an alien invasion of Earth. Players get to control various battle drones and ships to stave off the alien attack. So it is understandable that Zack thinks he’s losing his mind when he sees a spaceship exactly like those in Armada flying around outside his school window. But nope, the aliens are real and the game developers created the game, in ...more
"Armada" is littered with gaming, sci-fi, and 80's pop-culture references, but sadly, not in a good way. Cline uses the references as stand-ins for any original writing. Instead of taking time to describe things, Cline just pops in a sci-fi reference. Space ships look like *insert sci-fi reference*. Characters feel like *insert movie reference*. Even the dialogue is unoriginal. Everyone speaks in cliches. Also, the first 100 pages are info dump, the characters are one-dimensional, and the story
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I like the way Cline writes so I enjoyed Armada. I did not enjoy this as much as I did Ready Player One, but this one was good. I would give it 3.5 starts, overall. I did like all of the characters, but it was a tiny bit slow in getting started. If you liked Ready Player One, you will probably enjoy this one as well.
Really, 3.5. I liked this, but not as much as Ready Player One, and there were some painfully slow parts in it, which I didn't find in Ready Player One, either.
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