gone fishing
I’m busy getting ready to go on vacation, and the computer’s going into the shop, so don’t expect to hear from me for a couple of weeks.
I’ve got a stack of books that need to go back to the library before I head out of town, but what I’ve actually been reading is Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow. It’s propaganda (the long lectures from the main character’s history teacher wear thin), but fun propaganda, and unfortunately only slightly beyond what’s believable.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am
We listened to the audio of Little Brother on a recent long trip. Definitely entertaining, scary, realistic, and on the didactic/propaganda side, and he could have used an editor. What’s most interesting, though, is the degree to which it’s also an instruction manual, in the tradition of The Monkey Wrench Gang. I have somewhat mixed feelings about handing it off to my 17 year old. He isn’t nearly careful enough at this point about his online activities, and could use a dose of the “paranoid linux” security awareness and how-to at the heart of the book. But then he could hide from … well, me.