Ready Player One/Armada

Blue

Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

• Oct 26, 2016

• #11

Read RP1 last summer. Enjoyed it, say 7/10. I'm from the era to get the references, but while I know it was the point, it was so heavy-handed with them that it got to be overdone. The bad-sack world was also too-bad-to-be-believed. Finally, moving to doing-something-in-RL was a bit hard to swallow, showing competencies that didn't make sense as "background skills" and hadn't been developed elsewhere.

Still enjoyable for all that and suitably epic.

 

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trappedslider

Legend

• Oct 28, 2016

• #12

Thinking about RP1, I think if i were in the OASIS I would have a star destroyer with a program running it ,so i wouldn't need a crew for my large ship needs followed up by something smaller like maybe an x-wing or a viper

 

Ovinomancer

No flips for you!

• Oct 31, 2016

• #13

RP1 was a bad book with good fan service.

 

trappedslider

Legend

• Oct 31, 2016

• #14

Ovinomancer said:

RP1 was a bad book with good fan service.

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how was it a bad book for you?

 

TarionzCousin

Second Most Angelic Devil Ever

• Nov 2, 2016

• #15

Altamont Ravenard said:

I'm also tired of stories about the adolescent "chosen one" who prevails against insurmoutable (sp?) odds and the evil organization.

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I also tired of chosen one stories many years ago, but don't feel that RP1 fits into that category. There's no prophecy, no oracle or organization that chose the protagonist.

That said, I enjoyed the book as brain candy. I've also read Armada twice but can't remember a thing about it.

 

Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Nov 2, 2016

• #16

I think the protagonist was a bit too expert at specific things fairly constantly. Everything that came up, he had coincidentally either watched 100 times or played constantly for a year.

 

Ovinomancer

No flips for you!

• Nov 2, 2016

• #17

trappedslider said:

how was it a bad book for you?

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The main character was a total Mary Sue that still got into situations solved by deus ex machina. Strip the family service, and it's a pretty awful book. The fan service made it barely enjoyable enough to finish.

 

jasper

Rotten DM

• Nov 7, 2016

• #18

The only reason I gave it 3 out 5 on Amazon was I bumped 1 star up for the 80s fan service.