About a third of the way into the novel, I am hit by a sense of having been here before. The tone, the scenario, the characters seem familiar though I can attest that I've never read this book before. This may be a case of a book that is so influential and inspiring that it sets the standard for s...
This is one of the Cory Doctorow books I've been wanting to read for a while, so I picked up a copy for my Kindle. It was a different read from what I had been expecting. I like how Doctorow sets up this completely futuristic world, but in the context of the Magic Kingdom, it still feels down to ear...
I enjoy Doctorow and find him easy to read. The early novels, of which this is the earliest, read like expanded short stories in that there is a basic premise that unfolds with extra detail but not extra complexity. This works in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which is about control in several m...
I think I understand what Doctorow was trying to do, and the story was pretty compelling. However, it was a bit messy- I felt like it lacked a proper climax & the ending felt rushed and tacked on as a result. I also came away with the feeling that it could have gone so much further and said so muc...
Even though I find him massively annoying in the way I always find professional bloggers annoying (read: if I am honest with myself, it probably has mostly to do with jealousy), I have to admit, I think it is pretty cool that Cory Doctorow gives away all of his books for free (the smug bastard). I l...
I started out on Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing.com along with most of his readers. It was actually news to me that he wrote novels. I made a mistake starting out on Eastern Standard Tribe. I didn't like it. That book seemed to start weak and build to mediocre. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is...
I've mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I love some of the ideas, most obviously "Whuffie," the quantified amount of respect everyone uses as a sort of currency. It reads like good, old fashioned sf, but I don't much *like* old sf. On the other hand, I just plain disliked all of the ma...
I like Doctorow's most recent work more, for depth and richness, but he does have a lot of intriguing ideas to put in his fiction, even early on. Dude must think of six impossible things before breakfast every day.
Who *wouldn't* want to live in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, with no other responsibilities than to mind operations at the Haunted Mansion (Best. Ride. Ever.)? As it happens, our hero Jules is afforded this opportunity in near (?) future as part of the Bitchun Society, where death has been rend...
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