The Impossible Fortress
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"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. "
Acquired via PaperBackSwap. (Unabridged on 7 CDs; read by Griffin Newman)
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. "
Acquired via PaperBackSwap. (Unabridged on 7 CDs; read by Griffin Newman)
The year is 1987. 14-year-old Billy and his two best friends are determined to get their hands on the Playboy issue featuring Vanna White, and in order to do so, they must figure out a way to breach the back counter area of the local typewriter/all-purpose neighborhood shop. When Billy meets the shop owner's daughter, Mary, and discovers they have a shared love of computers and computer programming, the boys hatch a plan to gain access to the coveted magazine via Mary, without her knowledge. Thus begins a story of teenage misadventures and first love, all wrapped up in an 80's context.
If a book is set in the 80's, I'm all about it. This isn't what I'd consider an amazing novel, but an enjoyable one. I loved the 80's references: music, TV shows, pop culture, and even the underlying early computer programming theme (remember Commodore 64?), which took me right back to that decade. I loved the nostalgia. The book even had a mild twist near the end, which I wasn't expecting at all. There wasn't anything too deep in this story, but it was fun. Computer geeks especially, who grew up in the 80's, should love this.
If a book is set in the 80's, I'm all about it. This isn't what I'd consider an amazing novel, but an enjoyable one. I loved the 80's references: music, TV shows, pop culture, and even the underlying early computer programming theme (remember Commodore 64?), which took me right back to that decade. I loved the nostalgia. The book even had a mild twist near the end, which I wasn't expecting at all. There wasn't anything too deep in this story, but it was fun. Computer geeks especially, who grew up in the 80's, should love this.
Placing this one in an audio bookbox. Enjoy!
Caught in the audio Book Box.
