In the meantime, Cline is back with another book. 'Armada” has at its foundation a similar premise. In this case, pop culture knowledge and advanced gamer skills appear to be the key to ...

Plans are in the works for a film version by director Steven Spielberg. His long-awaited second book, “Armada,” released by Crown, is another adventure tale of a video game-playing teenager ...

Ernest Cline’s Armada is an almost universally reviled book, but there are ways to improve it for the screen, and his debut novel shows the way Ernest Cline’s Armada is an almost universally ...

And to be fairer still, if you think of Armada as strictly a Young Adult kind ... is reflected by virtually every other character in the book. Everybody is only one “hey buddy, are we cool?” ...

Armada is for everyone who wants the latter, a book-length love letter of cultural hyperlinks that refer you elsewhere but contain no meaningful content themselves. Take away the shoutouts and the ...