Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

*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

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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 |

Eighties Nostalgia Overload

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.” Ready Player One has been on my TBR list for a while now but the upcoming Spielberg movie adaptation raced it to the top of the pile- I could see my husband wanting to see the movie and I wanted to read it first. This is pretty heavily reviewed already on CBR so most people probably know the gist but here goes..: In the not to distant future, year 2044, reality is bleak. The virtual utopia OASIS has replaced the real world for most people, […]

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7/8/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:57 |

Hey, you got 80’s nostalgia in my dystopian novel. No, you got dystopian novel in my 80’s nostalgia.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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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 drugs. Luckily, Wade has a number of ways to escape this sad existence—an abandoned van […]

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4/24/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:11 |

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