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- Release date: 02-07-17
- Language: English
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $20.99
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A dazzling debut novel - at once a charming romance, a hilarious crime caper, and a moving coming-of-age story - about what happens when a 14-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of Playboy but then discovers she is his computer-loving soul mate.
Billy Marvin's first love was a computer. Then he met Mary Zelinsky.
Do you remember your first love?
The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine. The year is 1987, and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune. For three teenage boys - Billy, Alf, and Clark - who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women, the magazine is somewhat of a Holy Grail: priceless beyond measure and impossible to attain. So, they hatch a plan to steal it.
The heist will be fraught with peril: a locked building, intrepid police officers, rusty fire escapes, leaps across rooftops, electronic alarm systems, and a hyperactive Shih Tzu named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Failed attempt after failed attempt leads them to a genius master plan - they'll swipe the security code to Zelinsky's convenience store by seducing the owner's daughter, Mary Zelinsky. It becomes Billy's mission to befriend her and get the information by any means necessary. But Mary isn't your average teenage girl. She's a computer loving expert coder, already strides ahead of Billy in ability, with a wry sense of humor and a hidden big heart. But what starts as a game to win Mary's affection leaves Billy with a gut-wrenching choice: deceive the girl who may well be his first love or break a promise to his best friends.
At its heart, The Impossible Fortress is a tender exploration of young love, true friends, and the confusing realities of male adolescence - with a dash of old-school computer programming.
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- RueRue
- 04-09-17
Great story !
This book was a delightful surprise. Funny and touching, well developed characters, good narration. It's not as YA as it might seem initially. Definitely worth a credit.
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- Qchick
- 02-22-17
It's GOOD!
This is a charming coming of age story and moves along at a good pace. The story and the narration are excellent! I hope Jason writes another one and Grffin Newman reads it to us!
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- Dawn Jackson
- 02-16-17
Great story with a few twists
I loved everything about this book except for the 30 to 45 seconds of code entering at the opening of every chapter
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- John
- 10-14-18
A very good listen.
Everything about this is good. The story is cute and the reader is fantastic. Will listen too again.
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- Derek Hale
- 08-06-18
YA Nostalgia
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- Becky Gelderloos
- Las Vegas, NV, US
- 07-06-18
great page turner. coming of age in the 80s
I loved this book.It was very quirky, and situationally humorous. A must read, The narrator was awesome and so was the storyline.
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- Nyxx
- 07-03-18
Very odd story.
Was entertaining but didn't sit well in the end. like it was trying to force a neat little package around a disjointed story.
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- Matt Moore
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- 05-11-18
Engaging and Entertaining Look at late 1980s Adolescence
Jason Rekulak’s fictional memoir is engaging and entertaining, blending the right amount of nostalgia with a solidly paced story about a pair of 14-year-olds in the mid to late 1980s northern New Jersey. With a healthy dose of computer programming, nods to video games and teenage desire, he’s woven a deft tale of incandescent and exploratory first love crashing headfirst into the cold reality of real life.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-03-18
Like an 80s movie
This reminded me a lot of an 80s film. I learned to program in qbasic in DOS and took a Pascal class in high school. on the go I had a ti83 which I wrote my own games on. This book really hit home and I'm glad I picked it up. The narrator kept me entertained, I really couldn't have asked for more.
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- Jenn Candler
- 03-16-18
Throw back to 80s days of ML code
Would you listen to The Impossible Fortress again? Why?
Yes
Who was your favorite character and why?
Mary
What does Griffin Newman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
never heard him before. I will listen to him again
Any additional comments?
I love how the audible chapters matched book chapters. I love the characters. I love the 80s strictness of the parents despite their curious children. I love the beginning of each chapter was code from the game.