Before we dive into today’s chapter, there’s one thing from yesterday’s infodump chapter that I’d like to draw extra attention to, because it’s one thing in particular that drives me insane about Ernest Cline’s writing/mainstream geek culture as a whole. Let’s see if you can guess what it is: [G]aming legends like Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, […]
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One With You Chapter 5 Eva tries to sleep in during her first day as a jobless free woman. Cary will not stand for this: “It’s after nine o’clock, lazybones,” he drawled, settling on his stomach with his heels kicked up behind him. “I know you’re unemployed, but don’t you have a shit-ton of stuff to get […]
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Long-time readers of the blog, you read that right. New readers of the blog, you’ll find out. One With You: Chapter 6 The chapter opens with Gideon and Angus listening to the audio from Eva’s confrontation with Anne from the last chapter. Gonna be honest, still not 100% certain who Anne is. There are a […]
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Armada Chapter 5 Zack tells us that his room is decorated with all of his dad’s old things. It’s funny because this book is also decorated with things that don’t belong to it. It makes me wonder if the book is just another long-winded way of saying NOTHING IS ORIGINAL, but if so, the message is […]
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Armada: Chapter 6 The brand new Armada mission starts with a rousing bit of – that’s right – Zack explaining more rules. I know I was hoping to get an entire page explaining that the game has a virtual copilot and why Zack chose the voice that he did for it. That’s just verisimilitude, like how […]
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One With You Chapter 7: My hand shook as I poured freshly brewed coffee into three mugs. I couldn’t tell if that was because I was so pissed off or because I was afraid. Certainly, I was both. Being a cop’s daughter, I understood the unwritten rules followed by those who worked behind the blue […]
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Spoilers. Try to read that before you read the title of today’s post. One With You: Chapter 8 Angus reveals that he searched Terrence Lucas’s office last night (hopefully you’re not interested in questions like “how?”) but did not find evidence of how Lucas sexually assaulted Gideon as a child (hopefully you’re not interested in […]
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Armada Chapter 7 Zack finds that his car has been keyed, and the likely culprit is that turd muffin from school. I hope the aliens kill that dude first. At school, Knotcher and his goons surround Zack, ready to fight! And throw cliche and homophobic insults! Little do they know that for some reason Zack […]
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This chapter marks the start of Part 2 of the book, which is referred to in the book as Phase 2 (because alien invasions, which makes sense). This is probably more exciting if you’re actually reading the book, but less exciting when I’m like “and then I turned the page and it was Part 2 now!” Sorry […]
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One With You Chapter 9 Cary shows Eva a sketch of a potential wedding dress, but she whines about it’s not right and time is running out. They have a very detailed discussion about why this dress is wrong, and Eva gives some vague explanations of what she wants out of a dress. As positive […]
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One With You: Chapter 10 Gideon and Eva prepare for their separate bachelor/ette parties. Meanwhile, Angus will be heading to Austin to look more into this “Eva’s mom is not Eva’s mom???” thing by doing some digging on Lauren Kittrie. Much more importantly, Gideon’s sister Ireland is taking care of the puppy. Angus’s Lauren research makes […]
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Zack and the other recruits (who he informs us are a very diverse group of people!) take an elevator down to a big auditorium. I also spotted people in business suits, fast food uniforms, surgical scrubs, and one dazed-looking middle-aged woman who was wearing a wedding dress and still clutching her bridal bouquet. They couldn’t […]
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I just bought my copy of the new Harry Potter but can’t start reading it yet because I really should get this post done first. So if I seem extra angry at Armada today, that is probably part of the reason why. Not Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Armada: Chapter 10 Sigh. Ok. Seriously. I’m ok. What’s today’s stupid […]
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Before Eva finds out about Gideon’s shocking photos, she fondly recalls when she started to become friends with Cary. She’d approach him after group therapy to say hi, he’d accuse her of trying to “ride [his] dick”, and she’d be like, “Um, no.” Thus, a friendship was born because Eva could resist Cary’s dick. Once […]
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One With You: Chapter 12 Gideon goes into the office to discuss top-secret information about the ongoing “Oh Shit, We’re Halfway Through The Last Book And We’re Out Of Plot, Oh Shit, Um, Uh, What If Eva’s Mom Is Secretly Someone Else” subplot. “Tell me you have something.” Angus leaned forward. “Little more than I […]
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Armada Chapter 11 After the video is over, a man gets on stage and everyone gasps: It was Admiral Archibald Vance, the cyclopean EDA commander who gave players their mission briefings in both Armada and Terra Firma. […] “Greetings, recruit candidates,” he said. “My name is Admiral Archibald Vance, and I’ve been a field commander […]
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Armada: Chapter 12 The battle of Crystal Palace, as it came to be known, Well, great, now we know that the story doesn’t abruptly end in the middle of the book. was my first taste of real life-or-death combat. Even though I wasn’t physically inside my Interceptor, my body was only a few hundred yards […]
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One With You Chapter 13: Eva tries to get Gideon to open up to her about how he’s feeling after confronting his mother. Not great, as you would imagine. Eva addresses this in a mature and impressive way: “It hurts. Okay? But I knew it would. That’s why I put it off so long. But […]
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You read that right, and it is just as awful as you’re already thinking. One With You: Chapter 14 You may recall that the last chapter ended with Eva suddenly losing consciousness. My wife lay deathly still across my lap, unresponsive to my desperate examination. Oh man, this really sounds like Eva just got shot! […]
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Hey, everybody. Ariel and I are taking a week off. It would have seemed less odd if we took that week off within one single calendar week, but we’re splitting it up between the rest of this week and the first half of next week. I guess we just feel like being difficult. We’re not playing […]
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