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thanks, mr. doctorow, now i'm even more scared of governments! (Little Brother!)

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KickThatBathProf:
Don't you people read xkcd?

Surgoshan:
Someone starts babbling about the government and a book and I'm supposed to take time out of my day to try and figure out what the hell he's talking about?  Yes, I know I could have done that instead of posting, but I know I'm going to enjoy being snarky at someone's expense; I don't know that troubling myself to do research on a book will give the same benefit.  So.

snark snark snark

Scruffy:
Uh, i'm with Surgoshan.  Why would I bother finding some nut.  In fact, I assumed he was mocking the guy.  On top of that, I thought doctorow must be a forum member who couldn't get the name, Doctor Owe! or something. 

Besides, I read 1984 and Brave New World, I'm sufficiently aware that the world is using them as instruction manuals.

MusicScribbles:
I assume that Jill is talking about Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother.
So, I haven't read this yet, but I've been planning to.
I'm a regular Boing Boing reader, so I've been following Cory's exploits. I just have such a large queue of books sitting at home waiting to be read. I just finished reading No Country For Old Men and If on a winter's night a traveler, but still have a ways to go before I can get around to this.
The fact that a lot of my local libraries are carrying copies of this means that when the times comes I won't have a hard time looking for this.
So, tell us what you think about this book, and, more importantly, what it's about. (For all of the lazy ones.)

Surgoshan:

--- Quote from: Anyways on 26 Jun 2008, 07:22 ---Yes, god forbid you actually learn something.
--- End quote ---

When I want to learn something, I usually turn on the Discovery or History channels (though they can be iffy in their balancing act between educational content and pandering sensationalism) or I turn to wikipedia, or perhaps I open a new book.  I can, and do, happily lose hours to educational pursuits.  However, at no time do I use someone babbling incoherently as a basis for my hobbies.

So, now that people have confirmed that Doctorow is worth knowing about, I've in fact wiki'd him.  If I come across his book somewhere, I'll pick it up, but I doubt I'll actively seek it out.

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