Whew, I'm exhausted! What a ride. I'm not in the mood to write a long review. I'll just say Doctorow surprised me. I didn't expect primers on gaming, global economics, organizing and labor history. I also didn't anticipate caring deeply for the young gamers. I really, really, really didn't want them...
This is YA fiction, but it's not a book about first-world high schoolers angsting over popularity or boyfriend/girlfriend who may or may not be human, nor is it about some farm boy going through a Quest(TM) in Generic Pseudo-Medieval European Fantasy Setting(TM). Instead, it is about finance & labor...
This book is EPIC! :D It was probably 5x better than Little Brother. I really like Doctorow's writing style and how he explains complicated theories and how the character thinks. It's really eye-opening to the sort of things that go on in the world, that we can't just ignore anymore.I even think the...
This one had been sitting on my kindle for a while. The dedications to booksellers, large and small, brick and mortar and online - were a little depressing considering their decline since 2008. I liked the story bouncing around the world with the stories of sweatshop workers and others. The child...
Picked up the book in London and it's absolutely fascinating. Doctorow writes up a storm - as he tends to do - and this book is an absolute eye opener if you weren't sure what 'derivatives' are. He explains today's economy brilliantly while entertaining you and keeping you on tenterhooks. It's total...
I read other reviews and did not disagree with many of the people who gave the book four stars, but I did not feel their pain either. Maybe the book is too long, maybe some of its subplots could be cut, maybe the info dumps are, in a way, intrusive. At the same time, none of that kept me from enjoyi...
This was a little harder to jump into than Little Brother. There’s a lot more plot and characters to juggle around, not to mention, there’s the huge economic focus.I do like the global expanse in For the Win. It really illustrates the larger scope of the situation, and feels like the events have an...
Another fascinating economics lesson from Cory Doctorow. As a gamer, I enjoyed FTW because I understand (and love) MMORPGs. As someone who knows next to NOTHING about economics and particularly the socio-political situation in south east Asia, I felt decidedly...uneducated, even naive, throughout mo...
It'll take me a while to really write a review, but Awesome! should do for the time being.***Okay: here's what I love: it's a book about kids playing games, gold-farming, and it's about labor organization, and it's about national borders; it is, like the works of Levithan, about imagining a better...
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