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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)

Cory Doctorow

Why we're reading this: 1996 - Cyberattack
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Jul 09, 2018 Cora rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, young-adult, thriller, dystopia, cyberpunk, politics, california, 1st-in-series, canadian-author, technology

Little Brother is a young adult dystopian novel. Marcus is a high school student living in San Francisco when terrorists bomb the Bay Bridge killing thousands. The Department of Homeland Security swoops in and soon people are willing to waive their rights in the name of security. After he and his friends are arrested and interrogated for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus decides they must fight back against DHS in order to get back their country.

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Jul 24, 2009 Jana rated it really liked it

I am not sure how this book came to be in my pile of books to choose from (maybe suggested by amazon?) but there it was and after reading the flyleaf it seemed the most interesting of the current pile. But I did not think I was going to like it. I mean it definitely sounded like it was written for teenagers and I am so not a teenager anymore. And after the first few tech-filled pages I was still pretty sure it wasn't going to go well. But I was too lazy to go back upstairs and get a different bo ...more

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Nov 14, 2012 Jesse rated it really liked it

This was a very interesting book. The storyline was a little high-schoolish for me, but the security concepts were very interesting and very well explained. This one would scare the pants off of anti-government conspiracy theorists.

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Aug 07, 2009 Wendy rated it did not like it

Shelves: library-book, 2009, ya-fiction

I just couldn't finished this one (and I tried!). There was far too much jargonese and 'teaching/preaching' of stuff. No doubt some tech-heads will love all the data details, but it was just simply too much for me. Not enough 'meat' in the storyline. ...more

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Apr 09, 2011 Deyara rated it really liked it

Lots of details without becoming boring. Great story, a little worrying but also fun. Also liked the Afterwords. My first Doctorow book, but wont be my last.

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