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Armada

Ernest Cline

Start date: April 12, 2016

Finish date: April 30, 2016

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Shelves: identity, boy-book, science-fiction, adventure, coming-of-age, gaming-fiction, aliens-e-t

The author of the wildly popular and soon-to-be-film sensation, Ready Player One, serves up another gaming thriller. Armada is not a sequel. It is also not a roll play adventure, but more of a cautionary tale about the danger of actually living out the fantasy of battling aliens with drone simulators.

I found the first 50 or so pages a bit of a slog. The writing is stiff, the action too internalized, and redundant. I'm pretty sure if you shake the book you actually hear those chapters clinking a ...more

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