Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Player One is Ready!

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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I absolutely loved this book.  I know an audiobook is good when it makes me sit in my car outside my garage (so I don’t die from asphyxiation) and continue listening after I get home.  This book is read by Wil Wheaton, who just has a great voice with fun inflections, and tone changes, and all that is good in the world. This book was 15 hours long, so there’s a lot to cover.  I really don’t want to give anything away, so I’m going to do do a bare bones plot overview.  I had so much fun seeing what […]

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8/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

More space than fantasy is not as much my thing

Armada by Ernest Cline

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I loved Ready Player One, so when I saw another book by Ernest Cline, I grabbed it. Armada is very similar, but not quite as great. It’s got the fun mix of characters, a good geeky premise, and adventure, but it just doesn’t quite have the sparkle that the other story does. I wonder if maybe I didn’t love Armada as much because I was comparing it to its predecessor, and the significant parallels between the books make that really easy to do. Both books star flawed heroes with rough childhoods who are nearing the end of their high school […]

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7/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

*EXCITED BABBLING*

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Shout-outs are due here to Mswas Saws for recommending this, and to Is for buying it for me, therefore gifting me with one of my new favourite books. I read this in two sittings, only reluctantly putting it down for a short time while I ate and then being gutted on finishing it that I wouldn’t be spending any more time in this glorious world (it definitely has more than a few re-reads in its future). Our not too distant future is as depressing as you might already suspect it will be. With reality truly sucking, most people spend their […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Close encounters

Armada by Ernest Cline

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Zack Lightman is busy daydreaming in class when a spaceship appears outside the window. It is a spaceship that looks exactly like the ones in his favourite video game. Is he losing his mind or is something else at play here? Are aliens really making contact with us? And what does his long-dead father have to do with it all? Armada is Ernest Cline’s second book after Ready Player One, the critically acclaimed novel that’s currently being made into a film. Like in RPO, Cline displays his love for the 80s, video games and films in particular. It’s fun. It’s […]

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1/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Wil Wheaton is a hell of a narrator.

Armada by Ernst Cline

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I listened to Armada, narrated by Wil Wheaton. Wil Wheaton can make an ok book into a great listen. (Thanks, Natalie!) I am glad I put some space between Ready Player One and Armada. RP1 is a masterpiece of nostalgia, while Armada trades in the same nostalgia, it’s less graceful. It’s impossible not to compare the two, however I think I put enough distance between them that my disappointments and delights are all related to this book on it’s own. Mostly. The central idea of the plot is interesting – video games have been developed to fight off an alien […]

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1/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Manic Pixie Dream World

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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I knew nothing about Ready Player One when I picked it up. Somewhere along the way I had gotten the impression that it was in the Hunger Games/Running Man kinda book–this was way off. Ready Player One is the story of a dystopian future USA, dominated by a virtual reality universe called OASIS. James Halliday, the man who created OASIS, before he died, hid a series of clues within it. The person who finds and solves these clues (Easter eggs) will be rewarded with Halliday’s fortune. The story follows a teenager, Wade Watts, as he navigates the OASIS and attempts […]

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1/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:1 |

Time to get your 80’s on in a nerdy, techie way

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Here’s a bit of 80’s pop culture/classic gamer porn for those of you who are into that kind of thing. It’s a bit over the top complicated but fun nonetheless. The year is 2044 and the internet has evolved into the OASIS. This is basically where everyone goes when they go online, and depending on your gear, you’ll wear wear haptic gloves, a head visor, and maybe even a haptic suit. While the OASIS was originally created as a gaming environment, it evolved into meeting places (or planets) for any interest you may have. Kids can even attend school on […]

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9/26/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:6 |

“The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.”

Armada by Ernest Cline

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I loved Ready Player One: it was unique and clever and while the constant eighties references got repetitive it made some contextual sense. I was aware that Armada, Cline’s follow up to Ready Player One, was not as well received as his debut but was willing to give it a try. Zack Lightman lives outside of Portland, Oregon in the near future. He spends his time playing video games with his friends or working at the local second hand video game store. His favorite game, Armada, is about an alien species coming to wipe out the citizens of Earth using drones. Zack is excellent video game drone pilot, […]

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8/27/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:71 |

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