false <![CDATA[Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town]]> 29588 4 Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman, who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wingswings, moreover, that grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers is a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstepwell on their way to starvation because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned....bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who build miracles of hardware scavenged from the city's Dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him aloneand Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends. 824466 2005 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town total:552|5:95|4:193|3:178|2:66|1:20| 552 1933 842 112 2 3 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 15 12:46:59 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 07 14:04:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 16:30:33 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 05:27:14 -0700 2008
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The story is about a very odd -- but certainly humanoid -- man who is the child of a mountain and a washing machine. Literally. His got some brother...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 03:57:41 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 03:58:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 23 11:24:46 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 11:27:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 14:42:23 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 11:02:15 -0700 2009
As the story begins, he's moving into a new pl...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 09:03:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 21:54:52 -0700 2009
The book tells the story of a man in a magical family of oddities: his...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 18:27:24 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 10:06:22 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 18:27:24 -0800 2009 Eastern Standard Tribe- I've always felt that he wrote novels a little too much like a blogger for my taste. Which is to say, his characters felt like types ...more...]]> 0 0 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 21 10:23:45 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 10:27:46 -0700 2008 1
The characterization in this book was pretty good,...more...]]> 4 1 false true Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 14:24:24 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 14:26:51 -0700 2008 Author: Cory Doctrow
Fiction/Non-Fiction: Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Date Started Book: 7-15-2008
Date Finished Book:7-23-2008

Before Reading:

What do I expect to gain from reading this?
Kn...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 26 19:34:59 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 22 12:34:46 -0800 2008 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow's latest and the first thing I've ever read by him:

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I loved the premise for the book, which was all the information I could get about it when Sean handed it to me in the midst of a barrage of props tasks for the day. I mean, who comes up with things like that? Amazing.

It started off great. I love...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 14 15:40:46 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 15:52:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=29588