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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780765319852
ISBN: 0765319853
Label: Tor Teen
Manufacturer: Tor Teen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
Publisher: Tor Teen
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Sales Rank: 2299
Studio: Tor Teen
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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.
When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
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Rating:  - Couldn't put it down
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and couldn't put it down from the moment I started reading.It was the kind of book that had heart-racing moments, genuinely emotional moments and times where I laughed out loud.I read another review indicating that the villains could have used some fleshing out.While there is some truth to that, I don't feel it detracted from the story for me.I would recommend this book to anyone who appreciates the spirit of rebellion with a liberal dose of current pop-culture ... Read More
Rating: - Thought provoking, powerful novel.Not just for young adults!
In an attempt to win over a new generation of sci-fi readers, Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" is marketed as a young adult book. However, adult readers shouldn't worry that Doctorow's book will leave them behind or have them feeling juvenile for reading it.
"Little Brother" is a mature, contemporary novel that looks at the issue of security in a near-future that doesn't seem too far from today. When San Francisco is attacked by terrorists, seventeen-year-old hacker Marcus and his friends ... Read More
Rating: - Should be required reading for both teens AND adults...
Based on a recommendation from a friend, I took the opportunity to read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.While this is technically categorized as a "young adult" novel, it completely and totally transcends age boundaries.This should be required reading when it comes to thinking about what our "terrorism-adverse" society is coming to.Of course, the government would probably prefer you just ignored the book and trusted them to look out for you.
Marcus Yallow is a teenager who is much more ... Read More
Rating: - Plenty of science but eerily not quite fiction!
This book turned out to be a lot better than I expected. I feel like I have rare perspective on this book. I have worked in the security industry. I have worked in the computer industry. I have been in the free-speech and defense of the bill of rights movement. I lived near the locations of this book for several years. I have had friends arrested as Hackers in my high-school and I have had friends arrested by the DHS as terrorist suspects (torching Humvee's but subsequently acquitted). I have seen concerts ... Read More
Rating: - Revolutionary
Fast paced, up to date, and shockingly real.If more people, especially young people, read this, than we would live in a more just and free society.I also recommend buying this book to support Cory Doctorow and the publishers that allow him to put so much of his work online for free.
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