A review by alex_watkins
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

5.0

Okay so I read this book awhile ago and totally procrastinated/forgot to put up a review. But it was awesome, just so great, I wanted to become a hacker. I couldn't put it down, I had heart palpitations. This book was fantastic, really, really. It's set in the not so distant future, or it seems perhaps a future where the 2008 election didn't happen. A terrorist attack in San Francisco turns the city into a police state, and only a group of young hackers can save us. Okay so the title is clever but doesn't actually make sense, yes Big Brother is watching and it's about younger kids, but they are the ones stopping the surveillance so... does not compute. I found the San Francisco setting great, but you don't need to know San Francisco to enjoy this book. Since it's been too long since I read this, I can't remember all the insightful and witty things I probably had to say about it.