well, that was unexpected (when books attack)

[rmd]

i had plans for this evening. they were foiled.

wait, let me start over. while i've never met the guy in person and i'm sure he's very nice, i find cory doctorow's web persona somewhat annoying. in that sort of self-promoting "WEB TWO POINT OH IS SOOO COOL. ALSO, LOOK, THIS THING LOOKS LIKE A GOATSE! WE LOVE STEAMPUNK!" kind of way that makes me find boingboing a little too injokey insular for my tastes at times. (metafilter is also injokey insular, but it's an open (well, $5) platform so it's an injokey community rather than a bully pulpit)

but people kept telling me that his new book "little brother" is really good. even people who also snark about cory doctorow.

so i went to the web site and poked around a bit and decided to download it and give it a read some time - maybe load it onto my pda, something like that.

so i downloaded it and opened the file to be sure it was all correct and that it wasn't part 1 or 75 or something that would end up annoying me when i realized i was stuck at a cliffhanger. and i started reading it a bit.

that was a little over 3 hours ago.

i'm done with the book now.

it's really a fun fast read. buy it or just go check it out

Comments

[cz_unit]

Hm. I ditched trying to find the start of the story.

CZ

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yeah, there's a lot of verbiage at the beginning.
search for "Chapter 1" or "I'm a senior at Cesar Chavez high"

it's a fun book -- it seems like it would teach kids how to think about security and the bypassing thereof.