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Maybe Amazon doesn't carry it because Cory Doctorow is a shitty writer? A mountain and a dishwasher? Why do people read his trash.
I thought this topic seemed quite interesting. Do you have experience reading his content?
Yes I read a couple of his books and that's when I stopped following boing boing and all that.
Just a waste of time.
I'll gladly check out any books you've written. If you think you can do so much better than Doctorow, it must be really good stuff!
Oh, I can't criticize unless I'm an author is it? I can suppose you'll hold yourself to the same standards for praise then?
'Cause if you can't know bad without also writing, how can you know good? Otherwise that would be an illogical double standard.
True! But who gives a shit. Nobody here asked for your opinion about his writing. This thread isn't even about whether it's good. You just seem mad.
I can't say I've read all his content but Little Brother and Homeland are good examples of how technology can help aid in fascism. Sure it's a little over the top but it made me more aware of how corporations can be used to overstep our rights and privacy. You're free to hate on him all you want but the truth is he's actually doing something to push back and make us all aware instead of just saying to just be okay with it.
One only needs to read the twitter files if they want to see how true fascism is occurring today. We don't need an obnoxious book.
What has he done besides write a poor imitation of 1984?
I think you mean the X files
Your responses make a lot of sense now.
Tell me you don't know who Cory Doctorow is without telling me you don't know who Cory Doctorow is.
Weirdly enough, I went to a book store one time, picked up one of his newer books, didn't think I'd like it from the summary, but I read the first few pages and was hooked. Had to leave so I figured I would read the rest by downloading from libgen.is...
First time I've felt significantly disappointed not being able to read a book :'(
Amazon carries poorly written smut, they are not big on quality control. And you really need to look up the definition of trash, if you think what he writes is trash.