Saturday, April 17, 2010

I'm reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, it is about a group of teenagers that are whiz kids with computers and use their skills to fool their school's computer system, letting them leave school and mess around. It's in the perspective of a kid named Marcus Yallow, who also goes by w1n5t0n, is the main character and really really good with computers.

One day, him and his friends, Darryl, Vanessa (Van) and Jose Luis (Jolu), sneak past all of the security features of their school and go to try and find a clue for a game, Harajuku Fun Madness, and while they are out, some part of their city gets bombed and they are caught up in a flurry of chaos as people are running to get into shelters and the subway system. They decide to go into a shelter but then think that it would be better to stay above ground. As they are going up, Darryl gets stabbed and they flag down a military vehicle that turns out to not be military and it kidnaps them. They are taken to some sort of interrogation facility and that's how far I've gotten.

I really really like this book! It's cool how the style of writing is kind of informal, I'm not really sure how to explain it but it just seems like it's not really just telling a story but more like how some teenager would explain it. Which I'm guessing is what the author was trying to do. Also, I like how descriptive the author is with explaining all of the gadgets and computer stuff, it adds a little background that makes it easier to follow. I would definitely recommend this book and I've only read about 40 pages so far! It's very hard to put down and if I could, I would read it all day.

1 comment:

  1. Good job, John. Keep up the good work. +5 extra credit for getting in the blog on time (yes, I didn't check until later in the day - don't always count on that, though).

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