Armada by Ernest Cline, 355 pagesZack Lightman is your average video game-obsessed teen, wondering what in the world he's going to do with his life after he graduates in two months' time. His life gets turned upside down, however, when he learns that all of the sci-fi/alien invasion stuff from his favorite video game is true and that he's being recruited to help save humanity, using those gamer skills that previously seemed useless.
If you're a big gamer and/or have a lot of nostalgia for sci-fi pop culture of the '70s and '80s, you'll probably enjoy this book, which reads like a movie script. I, however, picked this one up based on my enjoyment of Cline's Ready Player One. While it was a good book for the airport, it felt a bit too much like a mish-mash of things that came before, from Ender's Game to Top Gun to the aforementioned Ready Player One. I give it a solid "meh."
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