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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Cory Doctorow

Start date: January 3, 2010

Finish date: February 17, 2010

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May 25, 2008 Sandi rated it liked it

Shelves: 2008, sci-fi

As a native Southern Californian who has been to Disneyland a minimum of once per year since before birth, how could I pass up a book that combines science fiction with Disney?

I was really torn between giving this three stars or four. It scores high for creativity. It's got a very tight plot and some interesting ideas. It takes place at Disney World's Magic Kingdom. I've been there once, but it's so much like Disneyland that all the ride references made sense even if the geography changed. It's ...more

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Nov 14, 2009 Lisa rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

Though futuristic sci fi is not my thing, I read this as part of a challenge. At first I didn't understand all the futuristic lingo. Then the idea that you had no real death, no scarcity etc bogggled my mind. What would be the point? Theworld would get more messed up, not less. It was sort of fun to imagine that sort of life, but then I started to think of all the new problems that could arise. I guess it should be a sort of cautionary tale about taking advances in tehnology too far. So you thin ...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Tanvir Muntasim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Throws a bunch of intriguing ideas at you (e.g. reputation based economy) but doesn't take time to cohere into a consistent narrative. Mainly episodic in nature, enjoyable for its playfulness, but clearly shows Doctorow groping around on his way to maturity as a writer. Promising start, which I assume was fulfilled in his later novels. ...more

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Oct 21, 2010 Jason rated it really liked it

Remains one of my favorite books due to my love of both science fiction and Disney World.

If only we could trade in Whuffie.

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Jun 08, 2008 Adam rated it really liked it

I started out on Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing.com along with most of his readers. It was actually news to me that he wrote novels. I made a mistake starting out on Eastern Standard Tribe. I didn't like it. That book seemed to start weak and build to mediocre. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is n...
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