Now that's an important book! Cory Doctorow is such an amazing public figure to me, making his works available online for free, encouraging online readers to have a go at changing the text, serving as European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His written works mirror his life in so ma...
Little Brother was written for me despite that I'm well out of my teen years. I'm not net savvy enough to logon to the TOR network or build my own computer from the ground-up [if I did the book would be my crying, cutting my hand and cussing a bit as I redid installing my hard drive.] I ran a John M...
Slightly better than [b:Jennifer Government|33356|Jennifer Government|Max Barry|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348714230s/33356.jpg|1647], but I can't help but wonder if Max Barry and Cory Doctorow got together one day and agreed to write a bunch of terrible novels with a social/political message.
I really don't get why everyone seems to love this. It was certainly well paced (apart from all the really annoying "Let's pause for a lecture now" parts), but mostly it's just pretty badly written propaganda. That I happen to agree with most of it doesn't really rescue it.
This was fine. I enjoyed some of it, rolled my eyes at some of it, and got exasperated by some of it. I loved the Teen vs THE MAN! aspect because that's just always good fun. I enjoyed some of the snarky little jabs here and there.I'd have liked this more when I was an enraged youth. Now I find much...
Very interesting book, written for YA, but interesting for adults. The book was published in 2008, and the events at the G20 conference in 2009 seem to show much of the concerns that are raised by Doctorow have been borne out, not in the indefinitely distant future, but right now. The other review...
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