false <![CDATA[Eastern Standard Tribe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174203547m/370282.jpg 29589 5 1466 2004 Eastern Standard Tribe total:565|5:81|4:228|3:201|2:47|1:8| 565 2022 802 58 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 2 1 false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Nov 28 01:27:57 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 01:31:46 -0800 2007 Cory Doctorow, one of the writers at BoingBoing.net, so it might not surprise you that you that it's under the Creative Commons license and you can read it for free at his site. Being, however, a chump, I paid real Earth dollars for it in meatspace. Meatspace! I am a hip cy...more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 5 0 false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Apr 19 21:29:17 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 21:38:39 -0700 2009
“So you’re a fish out of water. You live in Arizona, but you’re sixteen years old and all your neighbors are eighty-five, and you get ten billion channels of media on your desktop. All the good stuff—everything that ...
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in what follows, i do say something about what happens in this book, so be warned.

friends have told me that philip k. dick's novels are often celebrated not for how good the writing is,...more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 3 0 false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Dec 19 11:09:38 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 11:10:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 3 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 21:31:12 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 21:43:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 2 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 13:10:26 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 18:08:29 -0700 2007
The premise grabbed me-- "A born-to-argue misfit like all kids who live online, Art has fou...more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 3 0 false Wed Sep 16 13:47:15 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:54:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 370282 0765307596 9780765307590 25 3 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174203547m/370282.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370282.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 3 1 false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 00:17:08 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 00:42:29 -0700 2009 2 Also a lot of high tech cell phone usage for communication and other things, plus a state psychological system gone very wrong.
The story is Art's...more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 2 0 false Mon May 19 06:31:18 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 06:40:56 -0700 2008
The beginning is very strong - and I had high hopes that this book would have the staying power of Jennifer Government. It didn't.

It has interesting characters and some entertaining twists - but there's th...more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 3 0 false Wed Jul 08 12:11:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 13:12:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 3 0 false Tue Feb 03 14:03:42 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 14:05:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 29589 0765310457 9780765310453 539 55 Eastern Standard Tribe 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:25:15 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:28:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=370282