by Cory Doctorow
I loved this book for 2 reasons.1) It was a ridiculous and fun story. Easy to read, and never a dull moment. The character of Alan/Arthur/Antoine/etc is quirky (as expected being the son of a Mountain and a Washing Machine) and the development of his family dynamic through the story is really comp...
There were some amazing beginnings in this book. Or some potentially amazing ideas. That is, they could have been amazing ideas, had Doctorow seen any of them through to completion. While that is almost the hallmark of Doctorow's novels, I found that the first three in particular were so scattered a...
This was a fine idea, sort of, that doesn't work. There are two intertwined stories. The more coherent and less interesting story is about providing free WiFi to a neighborhood. This part has the feel of leftovers from a related and more interesting idea in Eastern Standard Tribe. The second story, ...
I listened to this one via Doctorow's podcast which included personal updates and the occasional cuckoo clock interruption. I loved the surreal whimsicality of the past life of Allen (Adam, Anton, etc...) but then it became creepy and grotesque. I'm not a fan of the evil character who is just evil...
Doctorow's a really interesting person – editor of the "blog" BoingBoing.net (which always has links to really cool stuff on a regular basis), college dropout and professor at the University of California, Locus & Campbell Award winner & Nebula nominee, pro-Creative Commons activist, and all-around ...
This book was okay. I gave up 1/3 the way through, but I think at a different time it would have appealed more. Lots of description with little movement of character or plot.
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