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Little Brother

by Cory Doctorow

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Lots of action, way to close to what could be our ( at least the American's)reality given the unprecedented power given to Homeland Security in terms of detaining suspects...a good read for people into technology or those who would like a glimpse into technology's dark side...
1 vote toddphillips77 | Oct 29, 2009 |
I'm reading this in installments through DailyLit though I got the hardback free at ALA. I loved Doctorow's program, but this book is not doing it for me. The kids aren't believable teenagers and the amount of stop and explain what something means is killing me. I would have assumed that the main audience of this book would not have needed most of these explanations and they come off clunky and false. I still love him and what he's trying to do/say, but I think I'll stick to his non-fiction.eta - I gave up about a third of the way in. Too painful. ( )
  e1da | Oct 6, 2009 |
Guess it's aimed at late-teeangers. An enjoyable read, but fails to fully satisfy. ( )
  simondavies | Sep 30, 2009 |
A great read about technology, the internal and contemporary issues. The reality of a police stat as the corruption in government. A wonderful story about abuse of revenge along with romance and a vibrant reality. AHS/LM
  edspicer | Sep 21, 2009 |
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow. A great book that plays on the readers inner paranoia. When I finished this book I was so paranoid. I encrypted y computer and my flash drive with like five different programs and to access each program you needed to know a 50 digit password and each one had a different password. All really important things like passwords and such, I wrote it all on the tissue paper that quickly dissolves in water and I wrote it in invisible ink and always kept it on my person. Yes I went psychotic but that just shows the skill of the writer, Great for anyone regardless of your feelings towards our government. ( )
  Raben | Sep 11, 2009 |
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Little Brother represents a great step forward in the burgeoning subgenre of dystopian young-adult SF. It brings a greater degree of political sophistication, geekiness and civil disobedience to a genre that was already serving up a milder dose of rebellion. After this, no YA novel will be able to get away with watering down its youthful revolution.
 
MY favorite thing about “Little Brother” is that every page is charged with an authentic sense of the personal and ethical need for a better relationship to information technology, a visceral sense that one’s continued dignity and independence depend on it: “My technology was working for me, serving me, protecting me. It wasn’t spying on me. This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”

I can’t help being on this book’s side, even in its clunkiest moments. It’s a neat story and a cogently written, passionately felt argument.
 
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For Alice, who makes me whole
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I'm a senior at Cesar Chavez high in San Francisco's sunny Mission district, and that makes me one of the world's most surveilled people in the world.
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Canonical titleLittle Brother
Original publication date2008-04-29
People/CharactersMarcus Yallow (w1n5t0n)
Important placesSan Francisco, California, USA, Treasure Island, California, USA
Awards and honorsNebula Nominee (Novel, 2008), Emperor Norton Award (2008), Publisher's Weekly Best Book (Children's Fiction, 2008), Bookgasm Best Sci-Fi (2008), Locus Recommended Reading (Young Adult, 2008), SF Site Editor's Choice (2008) (show all 15)
DedicationFor Alice, who makes me whole
First wordsI'm a senior at Cesar Chavez high in San Francisco's sunny Mission district, and that makes me one of the world's most surveilled people in the world.
Last words(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Publisher's editorNielsen Hayden, Patrick
BlurbersGaiman, Neil, Westerfeld, Scott, Gould, Steven, Vaughan, Brian K., Huang, Andrew, Scalzi, John (show all 9)
DescriptionThe ultimate tale of teen rebellion -- one seventeen-year-old against the surveillance state. Big Brother is watching you. Who's watching back? Marcus is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the syste... (show all)
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The ultimate tale of teen rebellion -- one seventeen-year-old against the surveillance state. Big Brother is watching you. Who's watching back? Marcus 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. 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're mercilessly interrogated for days. 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 no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0765319853, Hardcover)

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.

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’re mercilessly interrogated for days.

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.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400)

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