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DNF @ 52%
I’m so disappointed this didn’t work for me. I read a great deal of mostly downbeat climate change and near future fiction, and the tagline “A novel of truth and reconciliation in our polarized future” appealed to me.
The first problem for me is that the characters in the book all come off a caricatures rather than actual, complex people. The main character is so cutesy and upbeat that it is annoying rather than endearing. The dialogue reads as forced and performative, and generally cont ...more
I’m so disappointed this didn’t work for me. I read a great deal of mostly downbeat climate change and near future fiction, and the tagline “A novel of truth and reconciliation in our polarized future” appealed to me.
The first problem for me is that the characters in the book all come off a caricatures rather than actual, complex people. The main character is so cutesy and upbeat that it is annoying rather than endearing. The dialogue reads as forced and performative, and generally cont ...more
This is a story about Brooks Palazzo, a 19 year-old living with his grandfather in Burbank, Southern California. It's set at a time where the world is coping with climate change and in a period where there is a political backlash to an earlier left-wing regime that implemented some fairly extreme left-wing goals, like a national job guarantee and comprehensive banning of guns. The city of Burbank has a strong social democrat movement as well as "maga clubs", movements of aggrieved older people r
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Every time I read a Cory Doctorow, I'm almost always freakishly amazed (with most of his books) at how utterly extroverted, socially-conscious, justice-oriented, almost fatally idealistic his novels can be.
Some more than others, of course, but when we get right down to it, these are some of the absolute far-leftist books I can think of that continues to keep a critical eye on the best possible outcomes as well as fighting the basic injustice that threatens all our lives.
In this case, it's a near ...more
Some more than others, of course, but when we get right down to it, these are some of the absolute far-leftist books I can think of that continues to keep a critical eye on the best possible outcomes as well as fighting the basic injustice that threatens all our lives.
In this case, it's a near ...more
Aug 21, 2023
Cindy
marked it as to-read
Nov 13, 2023
Gali
marked it as to-read
