Seriously, I can't remember the last time I've read such one dimensional characters.Holy shit.Every character was a caricature of stereotypes in the eyes of a meme-spouting faggot, and how he would view society. The fact that the whiny, idiotic main character had two girls described as, and I'm not kidding, "h4wt" falling all over him just gives me the vibe that the author was just living out his own fantasy of taking out major branches of government from his stupid ass laptop.The villains in this book were the Department of Homeland Security, who took over the city of San Francisco following a terrorist attack, and their first line of action was to pick up a 17 year old kid who was halfway across the city 5 minutes after the attack, and interrogate him and his friends with absolutely zero evidence, for no reason whatsoever.He gets freed, and decides he wants revenge. He started a "Youth Movement" where the author goes on to just voice his opinions of various news networks.Anyway, the DHS catches him later on for starting bullshit, and they start waterboarding him.I'm not kidding.The DHS waterboards a 17 year old kid from San Francisco because they think his Youth Movement against the government for running a police state, has something to do with a terrorist attack on the city before the youth movement started.Why the fuck is this book getting so much praise?
Because blogs are kewl?
>>2043744Its rather well written for a young adult Trotskyite book.You're criticising it against the standards of Brave New World. You ought to be criticising it against the standards of goosebumps.
>>2043960Everything should be criticized against the standards of Shakespeare.
I haven't read that book, but I don't think very highly of Cory Doctorow as a writer, having read a few of his short stories online.
I guess Neil Gaiman hadn't read much that year
>>2043990Compare him to Orwell (neither can write).