<i>- Armada: Ernest Cline - Very disappointing and predictable</i> ... but much improved (although still bad) if you take the interpretation that everything that happens after he almost beats someone&#x27;s head in with a tire iron happens <i>inside his head</i> during his full-on psychotic break. You can push some of the earlier events into being clues towards that, mix in his father&#x27;s conspiracy theory insanity for a genetic component, and then view everything that happens as purely a story he tells himself, fuelled by his obsession with eighties sf. It&#x27;s a push, but it makes it a better book (although still pretty bad) :)