And, if you get my title reference, then you are the target audience for this novel, which is a fun read so chock full of 80’s references that it made my teeth ache. It’s a great set-up. It’s the year 2044 and teenager, Wade Watts, lives in the future version of a trailer park (only imagine all the trailers stacked on top of each other), trying to stay out of the way of his abusive aunt, who would love to sell his computer to buy […]
The ultimate popcorn-book. Is that a thing? It should be a thing.
I have an 80’s music playlist on Spotify. It is named “the greatest decade known to mankind”. This may have greatly influenced my review of Ready Player One. (And just like the book, my playlist is not religiously limited to the 80’s). I loved Ready Player One. I held it close, I stroked it, I stayed up all night to…read it. It is my soulmate, my dream, my future, my everything. Ahem. Sorry. It’s been awhile since I was truly excited about a book. So […]
Open your mouth as wide as you can. I need to shove some pop culture references down your throat.
Oh dear. I’m going to keep this exceptionally short, as I don’t really have anything good to say. Like many of you, I really, really wanted to like this one. I tried really hard to keep Ready Player One out of my mind, and I tried not to compare the two while I was reading this one. And for almost half of Armada, I was ok. I was annoyed, and yes, I realized that this one wasn’t as good as RPO, but I was still […]
A checklist of 80’s trivia in book form
Okay. I’ve been sitting on this review for about two weeks, getting my head around how I felt about Armada for a bit longer, and 3.5 stars it is. It’s not a bad book — all things considered, it’s very entertaining — but even without comparing it directly to Ernest Cline’s first (and still best) book Ready Player One, it is precocious and simple in ways that aren’t completely flattering. There will be some spoilers below, and I’ll mark them. In this paragraph, I will […]
Definitely not Ready Player One
I really tried to like this. I really liked Ready Player One — in fact, that was probably one of the best books I read all year. In fact, I almost used an Audible credit to purchase Armada, since I liked the audio version of Ready Player One so much (both read by Wil Wheaton). Luckily, the library had Armada available, and I was able to find out for free that Cline couldn’t duplicate the magic of his debut. “I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering […]
Welcome to the (digital) Thunderdome!
I knew that I had missed something important when I saw the number of my friends on Goodreads who had read this book and loved it, and then was chastised by someone for not having read it yet once I had put it on my “to read” shelf. All right already! 🙂 It was the next book I picked up, and everyone was right: it was fantastic! I finished this book weeks ago, and I am a big jet lagged so this will be brief. […]
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