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I read this one entirely online. (Yay for the Readability bookmarklet.) Found it immediately engrossing, loved the characters -- like Little Brother, technologically-savvy but not always particularly aware teens for the most part. This one adds a couple of adults as secondary POV characters. There are a couple of lumps of info sections, mostly about economics, but I actually learned something reading them. (I swear, I actually understand inflation better now.) The politics are bracing in their f
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This took me FOREVER to read. Over a month. Really. It's long - the ARC is 475 pages. But it's also dense. Intense lingo to learn, narrator sections. And no chapters! There are three (if I remember right) parts, and then breaks between switches in narrator. Which makes the whole book seem breathless. Which I suppose is supposed to create dramatic tension but the effect on me was just to seem overwhelmingly endless. It was one of those books I felt the need to put down after a section to think ab
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what would happen if the world's virtual economies were unionized? another very real dystopian picture of power run amok to stop our bright shiny collaborative maker freeradio futre.
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Jun 25, 2010
Agathafrye
marked it as to-read
Jun 16, 2013
Kit
marked it as to-read
