27 April 2009
Cory Doctorow – Little Brother
Posted by Dirk under: books .
This book got a lot of hype. General hype from everywhere and more personal hype on my message boards where Bloom gushed about it quite a bit.
I was a little late coming to read it and I think it suffered a bit from being overhyped to me. I was expecting something grander than this.
Not that it’s a bad book. I liked it plenty. It’s a fun read and I burned through it pretty fast.
One thing that sort of threw me off my feed while reading it was that the author seemed to go a little over board in name dropping odd things that the character was into in order to make him seem hip. At least that’s the way it seemed to me.
If I knew an intelligent teenager that liked to read I’d get em a copy of this book. It’s pretty good for adults too.
One Comment so far...
Crowgirl Says:
3 May 2009 at 2:58 pm.
I only just now got around to reading Snowcrash… sounds a bit similar. Might just have to read it, though.
~forever crowgirl the nameless one