Armada

By: Ernest Cline

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

Zack Lightman is a dreamer. He fills his days with wishful thoughts of life on other planets and spends hours playing videogames, neither of which have helped him make friends or find a girlfriend. His refuge from the daily disappointments of life is Armada - an online space-fighter simulator based on defending Earth from an alien invasion. It’s when he’s playing that he feels closest to his father, a champion gamer who died when Zack was a baby.

He rises up the ranks until there’s only one other player who can challenge his worldwide supremacy. As he closes in on his ultimate enemy, the game suspiciously shuts down, leading Zack to investigate the many urban legends and myths that surround Armada. What he finds will take him beyond his wildest dreams.

The game was just the beginning....

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Better than Ready Player One..

Enjoyable read and a different premise involving aliens and video games. Liked it better than Ready Player One.

The book does suffer from author taking liberties around hacking, just like Ready Player One did.

Wil Wheaton was perfect fit as the narrator for the book, again, much like Ready Player One.

Wil Wheaton is fantastic!!!

Unfortunately the story was a bit too fst paced and short and tge characters cpuld have been explored more, as I think I would have really liked them... but then the whole story happens in less then a day, so it makes a little sense too. ...would love a sequel to this..

Fun, not deep but fun

It's like a Harry Potter of a book - you won't get anything out of it and it's fairly predictable, but it's a fun and easy read all the way through.

A must-listen for fans of the genre

Yes. It's no Ready Player One" (how could it be?) but (proud) geekdom will still find this a highly satisfying and heartening offering from the same author. And, really, what can be better than Wil Wheaton once again taking us on the joyride?
It's not life altering (probably) and is just a tad heavy handed somehow in dishing out some of its pop culture pearls (the very beauty of Cline's work I know and agree) but you will enjoy the storytelling way too much to let that detract.

In awe

Great story and social commentary delivered entertainingly by Will Wheaton. Loved it from beginning to end.

predictable but fun

great narration. loved the story even if it was very predictable. not as good as ready player one, but still fun.

Fun, quirky, way too many pop culture references

Fun listen with Will doing an excellent, as usual. Does feel like a ride on the nostalgia train, using pop culture references like nails to embed you in the story, as if referencing The Thing or Star Trek will somehow make it feel more based in reality and more intriguing, despite being pretty average. Do read, it's still fun.

Great Book!

Pretty good, hey. A sea of pop culture references again. Story line was a little derivative, but credit was definitely given where it was due. A very pleasant read.

Nom nom nom

What did you like best about Armada? What did you like least?

After Ready Player One, I was expecting another epic three course banquet. In comparison, Armada is more like a happy meal. But hey, there's NOTHING wrong with the occasional happy meal... just know that this book is a completely different meal from RPO and you'll be okay.

A Sci-Fi Great

Loved it! Ernest Cline writes another engrossing book I can't stop read/listening to. Obviously hard to follow up after Ready Player One and many themes are similar here, but still delightful though at times it did sound a little too similar to Enders Game.

The narration is the the best! Will Wheaton is frickin amazing as the narrator. Different voices and characters come alive and just add and pump up this book to new heights.