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  • Armada

  • By: Ernest Cline
  • Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
  • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (5,097 ratings)

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Armada

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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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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Skip, listen to Ready Player One instead

Full of vomit inducing sob sob amateur dramatics. A cheesy cheap soap opera designed to take advantage, constantly shouting and screaming popular sci and gaming references.
A turd that not even Will Wheaton's superb performance can polish.

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Wil Wh. gave best book performance I EVER heard.

What made the experience of listening to Armada the most enjoyable?

I say this with absolute sincerity - in all the years my years of listening to audiobooks (practically every day for perhaps 20 years), I have never heard a solo audiobook reading performance as emotive, effective, engaging, and just truly wonderful as Wil Wheaton gives in this book. The story was immensely enjoyable, but the this performance stood out itself. I constantly found myself enjoying specifically Wil's delivery of phrases, sections, lines, quotes, and most of all his truly moving and believable expressions of emotion. He made me cry. I'm not sure I've cried at an audiobook before.

What other book might you compare Armada to, and why?

As can be absolutely guarranteed from knowing Ernest Cline's writing in Ready Player One, this book is filled to the brim with pop culture references. In 2015, it's as current as it gets. So if you're a general pop culture / geek culture / sci-fi / general popular fiction aficionado, you'll love this.

Which character – as performed by Wil Wheaton – was your favourite?

I detest spoilers.

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I REALLY detest spoilers.

Any additional comments?

Not to be listened to by those who don't consider themselves well versed in popular culture. It would be like watching a sport without knowing the rules, or reading the third book in a trilogy and not the first 2.

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OK but lacks credibility

I can see this book becoming an action movie, but it lacks the depth in characters, plot or credible technology.

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Likely to be a film

Enjoyed it - wil Wheaton does a great job of narrating. It’s an easy read to drift in and out of and one I’ll listen to again soon

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Another great book from Ernest Cline!

I found it hard to stop listening once I had started. Good story! Well read!

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Ernest Cline is the best gamer author

Came for Spielberg, stayed for the author.

He really didn't do you much credit in the movie. I only wish you started writing earlier.

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slow start good finish.

loved it, takes longer to get onto then ready player one. but still worth your time.

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Different

A different outlook or way of looking at a Sci-fi book. Makes you think what the future will be like.

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great

To be honest I was a little apprehensive to listen to this after Ready player one which is amazing but this is a brilliant follow up. I didn't get lost in the story like I did in RPO but it's still an excellent listen

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amazing book had me hooked right away

Wil Wheaton as the voice actor great choice couldn't think of anyone better to do this

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