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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Cory Doctorow

Start date: January 3, 2010

Finish date: February 17, 2010

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Dec 16, 2009 Eric rated it really liked it

Shelves: signed, science-fiction, cyber-punk

I found it quite impressive that this book was published before social networking sites -- Facebook, Twitter, etc. -- became popular, as social networking uses measures of users' popularity in similar ways as Doctorow uses "whuffie" in the novel. Also of note is that the tangent of Jules's marriage to Zed predates the film The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, since there is a lot of thematic similarity there.

Doctorow is ahead of his time in a lot of the ideas he created in this book, but ...more

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Dec 22, 2009 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it really liked it

Shelves: read2010, sci-fi-fantasy, sword-and-laser

A quick read, not that unbelievable.

You can download it for free here:
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Feb 20, 2009 Brittany rated it liked it

Shelves: sciencefiction

Perhaps, when you've waited years and years to read a book and then finally do, there's only a very slim chance that it will actually live up to your expectations. I think that was my problem with this book. In my head, I'd built it up to be this pinnacle of science fiction, subversiveness, and sardonic wit. Instead, I got a story about Disney World. I knew the story was based in Disney World, I just didn't expect it to center so much around the attractions and history of the place.

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