What kind of review is this?
May. 23rd, 2008 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyI just finished Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. If you haven't, go do that, right now. You can download it for free if the library's closed.
I liked it so much that I can't read the comments on this thread yet. (Spoiler warning.) I got through a whole bunch of critical ones before I remembered that most of the people criticizing were SF geeks and computer geeks, not geeks who work with kids every day, or activists. I'm reading it as an activist and soon-to-be teacher and there were points at which I just wanted to put it down and give it to some of my kids to read instead.
(Which I didn't do, because I read my step-dad's copy and I need to give it back to him. But I think I'll buy a copy of my own, as it bears re-reading. Predictably, he basically told me that I needed to read it and I was going to want to give a copy to every teenager I know, which yes, is quite true.)
It's basically BoingBoing meets 1984. Anyone read it yet? Hurry up so I can talk about it with someone else.
I liked it so much that I can't read the comments on this thread yet. (Spoiler warning.) I got through a whole bunch of critical ones before I remembered that most of the people criticizing were SF geeks and computer geeks, not geeks who work with kids every day, or activists. I'm reading it as an activist and soon-to-be teacher and there were points at which I just wanted to put it down and give it to some of my kids to read instead.
(Which I didn't do, because I read my step-dad's copy and I need to give it back to him. But I think I'll buy a copy of my own, as it bears re-reading. Predictably, he basically told me that I needed to read it and I was going to want to give a copy to every teenager I know, which yes, is quite true.)
It's basically BoingBoing meets 1984. Anyone read it yet? Hurry up so I can talk about it with someone else.
