false 954674 5 <div><div>Marcus, a.k.a w1n5t0n, is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works, and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.<br><br>But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they are mercilessly interrogated for days.<br><br>When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.</div></div> 939584 book 29 4 2008 Little Brother total:3242|5:1197|4:1322|3:548|2:124|1:51| 3242 13216 5259 1125 2 14 false true Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 13:39:15 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 13:40:43 -0700 2008
The writing is not the tightest I have ever read, nor does it even begin to exude elegance, but it does a decent job of keeping you reading.

I was incredibly put off by the chapter-start bookstore dedica...more...]]> 5 15 false false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 17:41:50 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 06:00:30 -0700 2008
"Little Brothe...more...]]> 5 12 false false Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 17:20:57 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 16:26:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 10 false false Wed Jun 04 02:50:14 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 16:29:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 10:50:32 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 15:54:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 9 false false Mon Apr 21 13:02:31 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 13:22:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 23:34:12 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 23:55:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false true Thu May 08 20:11:33 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 15:52:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 17:33:52 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 11:15:32 -0700 2008 Little Brother follows 17 year old Marcus, an intelligent, techie teen. While skipping school, he's thrown into the middle of a terrorist attack and picked up by the Department of Homeland Security under suspicion of being involved. After his eventual release, ...more...]]> 5 5 false false Tue Apr 22 04:20:49 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 05:53:25 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 05:59:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 7 false false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 10:07:46 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 18:28:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false true Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 29 15:01:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 16:01:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 07:55:36 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 17:38:47 -0700 2008
Marcus is a 17-year-old hacker in San Francisco who loves playing computer g...more...]]> 3 4 false true Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 21:14:22 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 21:55:51 -0700 2008
Marcus is a smart-alec kid who is slightly too smart for his own good. He casually exploits the system and its loopholes, confident that his ability to do so is all...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 09:23:45 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 09:23:50 -0700 2008 Making Light that he had several dozen ARCs of Cory Doctorow's forthcoming novel Little Brother to hand out to any readers of the blog willing to immediately read it and talk about it. He announced a specific email address you could contact t...more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 00:06:48 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 18:11:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 07:37:17 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 07:16:43 -0700 2008
As the government starts encroaching mor...more...]]> 2 3 false false Sun Jan 18 16:55:28 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 17:07:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false true Thu Jun 12 05:44:19 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 06:01:23 -0700 2008
After all the hype, I expected more, so maybe I'm grading somewhat harshly. Still, a nicely put together primer on security and security theatre, although I suspect ver...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 13:59:21 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 23:19:24 -0700 2008

I think I found this via a link from Neil Gaiman's blog. Which means I should have read it posthaste, but hey, I'm only human and I had sparkly vampire braincandy to read. ...more...]]>