Armada / Armed (Paperback)

from cameling

From the author of [Ready Player One] this novel is centered around a teenage boy, Zack Lightman, who, when he's not working at his part time job in a video games store, plays an online videogame Armada. He daydreams about his father, who died in a factory explosion when he was an infant and then...

from ElizaJane

I haven't read "Ready Player One" so can't compare the two. I'm really into the science fiction scene, more from the classics and 80s than now so was keen to read this but like a lot of other readers I just kept thinking that the plot had been done before. It's not an accident, though, and is int...

from jbaty

It was fine. More like "Ready Player Six", I'd say. I enjoy the occasional pop culture reference, but good lord that was a lot of them. I knew I was in trouble when, as soon as he met a girl, I said to myself, "How much you bet he accidentally says something clever and they kiss before the day ...

from usuallee

It was alright. A respectable follow up to Ready Player One, albeit not nearly as good, and Kline really played it safe in terms of replicating a lot of that book's coming of age themes, hipster 80's references, etc. It was fine but really had a by-the-numbers feel to it and there is (very vague ...

from livingtech

Fast paced and light-hearted. Fun but not without some sorrow and loss that mostly rings false. There was no poetry here, but it was probably worth reading anyway. Relevant to some of my current passions, the video games that feature prominently are described in a low-to-medium amount of detail, ...