false 29587 8 Acclaimed by science fiction writers like Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker, and by eminent futurists and digital visionaries like Howard Rheingold, Mitch Kapor, and Jeff Bezos, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a wonderful tour de force, the alternately edgy and charming tale of youngJules's coming of age in a world that has conquered scarcity and death. The 'Magic Kingdom' of the title is the same one you're thinking of.For in this future, the great theme parks of the 20th Century are maintained by ardent artistic preservationists, who fight bitter battles over the most appropriate way to keep them going. Now a new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents-and they've had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war-a war of shifting reputations and technical wizardry for the soul of the Magic Kingdom itself. 1413 5 12 2003 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom total:1296|5:199|4:525|3:424|2:127|1:21| 1296 4642 1858 205 4 4 false false Thu Aug 07 08:02:34 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 10:07:24 -0700 2008 Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is that it is "shallow." Readers see a shallowness in character, a shallowness in the work they choose, a shallowness in story depth, and a shallowness in the story's morality.

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Okay, so it's finally time; time for me to finally make my way through the complete works of cutting-edge science-fiction author Cory Doctorow. After all, he's one of the fou...more...]]> 1 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 10:04:35 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 25 01:53:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 00:06:04 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 00:44:24 -0800 2007
Thought provoking cocktail party fodder. I disliked Doctorow’s mitten-fisted writing, banal hippie-dippy characters (Beatles references included); however, the points I found interesting don’t concern the people as much as t...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 02 19:26:21 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 19:58:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 09:43:54 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 17:45:48 -0700 2008
I was really torn between giving this three stars or four. It scores high for creativity. It's got a very ti...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 11:42:15 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 11:43:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 21 11:30:25 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 19:32:20 -0700 2007
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A posthuman romp where mortality and money are things of the past and "Whuffie" is the corn...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 19:10:09 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 13:01:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 21:40:21 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 22:04:49 -0700 2009
What Doctorow's story offers is a simple tale of a year in the life of a semi-likeable protagonist as he rages against the inevitable march of technology into Disney Wor...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 31 19:06:02 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 22:19:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 13:24:54 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 13:41:16 -0700 2009 1 dislike this book, per se. I liked the conceit, and I'd be interested in reading more stories that take place within this version of the future. But I didn't find the plot (or the characters, for that matter) to be particularly engaging.

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