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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)

Cory Doctorow

Start date: June 21, 2014

Finish date: July 20, 2014

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Jul 27, 2017 Bee rated it really liked it

Shelves: recommended-to-me, audiobook, near-future-scifi, young-adult

Damn that was satisfying.

I read this after listening to Cory Doctorow on the Sword and Laser podcast. Fascinating guy. I liked his world view, and this book proved I was right. It's a book about the importance of privacy in a age of ever increasing surveillance. It is a very realistic look, albeit written in a way accessible to young adults etc. at where our is heading at a fast trot. At how terrorism is being used to quickly and quietly slip a noose around our digital throats and what could be ...more

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Jan 10, 2014 Jourdan Cameron rated it it was ok

Though it has been years since I read Doctorow's Little Brother, I can't forget the disappointment I felt reading it. In spite of having been (much) younger, I couldn't shake the feeling while reading the book that Doctorow was trying very desperately to tell me something about surveillance. I'm not a man against putting a message in a book; I've put one in my own. The trouble is, I felt that the message in Little Brother- the one warning me about what I post online, who I talk to, or how I shou ...more

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