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Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
(2008)
read: 30 June 2008
rating: [+]
categories: fiction, ya
I read Cory Doctorow’s YA book Little Brother on the plane home from the library conference after seeing him speak on a panel on privacy and then coming home to learn that my LOCAL library, one who pays me occasionally, had, um, had a visit.
If you have/know smart kids who love computers, this is one of very few books I’ve seen that gets inside what really techie people are like, and it’s a decent YA novel at the same time, deals with a terrorist event where the Bay Bridge is blown up and civil rights get suspended, etc. If you know Cory’s work you’ll know how it goes, but I was surprised how engaging it was at the same time as it painted a dystopian near future and hit all the EFF-ish talking points.
Some of the web has a hate-on for Cory a lot of the time, but I like him and his writing. I like to read about people who are really deep into a tech universe. Few activists come across sounding so smart about tech.
Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin
(1965)
read: 28 June 2008
rating: [+]
category: fiction
[review pending]
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
(2005)
read: 1 June 2008
rating: [+]
category: fiction
[review pending]
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