Quick review of Cline's Armada
Armada by Ernest Cline--a quick review
Hot on the heels of the fantastic
adventure called Ready Player One,
Ernest Cline decided to keep it going with a new book called Armada.
Clearly another video game retread though as, while most of it is the
same type of thing as Ready Player One,
Armada does not have
the same magic.
Basically,
the concept for the first book was so good—intriguing and
electrifying—that he simply couldn't duplicate it. The characters
don't seem as strong and the prose doesn't seem as stylistically
interesting. However, the fascinating part of the book is his
re-imagination of what science fiction is in the first place. His
references to sci-fi mythos is truly for any nerd to love. Little
glimmers like that, that tell us we are not alone in our fandom, are
really worth reading about.
I
still liked Armada.
Don't get me wrong. I have always loved the concept of if the movie
The Last Starfighter
suddenly came true and whisked me away because I could play an
old-style coin-op video game. If this book came out first, there
would have been no unfortunate comparison.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
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