Currently reading
Madame Bovary
Siddhartha
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Collected Essays)
The Children Star
Manstealing for Fat Girls
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
Radiant Days
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
Footnotes in Gaza
Little Brother
I just read this entire book online, because Doctorow is doing a very cool Creative Commons license publishing strategy. Anyway, I'd never read an entire novel online before but it was a good experience, in part because the book was gripping, funny, and smartly political. Also, Doctorow has loaded the book with practical information on escaping state surveillance. Talk about the Dangerous Book for Whoever!A note to my friends: I was turned off in the first few pages by the narrator's glib and fetishy descriptions of "tranny hookers" in the Tenderloin, but persevered and came to see the narrator as a sheltered white middle class teen, and the fetishy language as indicative of that. I think what turned it around for me was a pretty well-handled scene when the narrator (whose handle is "M1k3y," ha) is confronted about his white privilege by one of his hacker friends.
