{"id":2779,"date":"2015-10-19T13:50:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2015-10-19T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:50:03","slug":"starfighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2015\/10\/19\/starfighter\/","title":{"rendered":"starfighter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">Armada<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">Ernest Cline<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/armada-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"armada\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/armada-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/armada-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/armada.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/span>Cline&#8217;s second book, like his first, is guilty of rampant nostalgia for a certain strain of 1980&#8217;s US nerd culture.<br \/>\nUnlike Ready Player One this book has next to no charm. Ripping off sci-fi properties like The Last Starfighter and Ender&#8217;s Game left and right I found this novel to be empty of original ideas and full of clich\u00e9d characters.<br \/>\nThe story is incredibly slight but it is very readable. I suspect I&#8217;d enjoy it more on a re-read or as an audiobook now that I know not to expect better of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">Rating: B-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armada Ernest Cline Cline&#8217;s second book, like his first, is guilty of rampant nostalgia for a certain strain of 1980&#8217;s US nerd culture. Unlike Ready Player One this book has next to no charm. Ripping off sci-fi properties like The Last Starfighter and Ender&#8217;s Game left and right I found this novel to be empty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,66,50,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-3","category-books","category-ebook","category-fiction","category-rated","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}