Armada

355 pages

English language

Published Feb. 27, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-8041-3725-6
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Armada is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, published on July 14, 2015 by Crown Publishing Group (a division of Penguin Random House). The story follows a teenager who plays an online video game about defending against an alien invasion, only to find out that the game is a simulator to prepare him and people around the world for defending against an actual alien invasion.Wil Wheaton, who narrated the audiobook version of Cline's previous novel, Ready Player One, performs the audiobook of Armada as well. Plans for a film adaptation are also in process.

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Review of 'Armada' on 'Goodreads'

Ce roman est un ramassis de poncifs éculés, à mi-chemin de Starfighter et de la stratégie Ender (je n'invente pas, quelqu'un d'autre a commencé sa chronique exactement comme ça).
Il raconte donc comment Zach, gamer finissant son collège US, est recruté par l'armée de défense de la Terre qui a en fait créé le jeu auquel il joue qui n'est qu'une simulation de combat spatial contre les extra-terrestres qui menacent la terre.
Si ça paraît cliché, c'est parce que tout dans ce roman est un cliché
Zach a un ennemi juré depuis l'équivalent du primaire.
Le père de Zach est mort - mais en fait non, c'est un soldat de l'armée secrète.
La mère de Zach vit dans la mémoire de son mari disparu, mais ne s'empêche pas pour autant de vivre des aventures sentimentales.
Zach rencontrera lors de sa journée d'intégration militaire une fille vraiment canon avec laquelle il …

Review of 'Armada' on 'Goodreads'

maybe 4-

Slightly less awesome than Ready Player One, which is OK because it's its own thing. I was still mightily entertained. I'm still thinking about the ending (not sure I'm all in on that). I love, love, love Wil Wheaton narrating Cline's books!

Review of 'Armada' on 'Goodreads'

How do you follow up a book like Ready Player One?

Easy. You don't.

Ignore the haters. This is a great stand alone book. It is not an Enders game clone, it's not another ready player one it is a stand alone fun little romp through arcade and scifi history with a fun plot twist.

Review of 'Armada' on 'Goodreads'

Is actual call this a 4.5 rating of I could. The book was great, it has a fairly common plot, but Cline acknowledges this through the book and puts his own spin. It was one of those stories I couldn't put down. But the ending was very weak. It was written in an in-between state of "ending the story" and "gearing for a sequel". It was like Clone couldn't decide if he wanted to write a sequel or not and therefore the story comes to a conclusion but also leaves questions the reader asks throughout the book unanswered. With that said, I really enjoyed the read.

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