Walkaway

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Cory Doctorow s first adult novel in eight years an epic tale of revolution, love, post scarcity, and the end of death.Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza known to his friends as Hubert, Etc was too old to be at that Communist party.But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute After falling in with Natalie, an ultra rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society and walk away.After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life food, clothing, shelter from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.It s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, people join them Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra rich have never been able to buy how to beat death Now it s war a war that will turn the world upside down.Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years and the very human people who will live their consequences.At the Publisher s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software DRM applied. New Download eBook Walkaway By Cory Doctorow – kino-fada.fr Wow I admit I went in blind to this only know the title, the cover, and the fact that I ve been a big fan of Cory Doctorow ever since Little Brother I thought it was going to be something of a thriller with perhaps a political and especially an awesome technological bent to it.I didn t expect it to be this huge...When I was 12 or 13, I stumbled upon anarcho syndicalism of the Bookchin Rocker variety and was convinced it was solely capable of saving the world At age 16, I saw Kubrick s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange and found myself adamantly rooting for the omnipotent state, since it appeared to be morally superior to the violent autonomous gang member Alex If Cory Doctorow s unique novel Walkaway serves no other purpose, it can be an antidote or foil of sorts for Anthony Burgess s A Clockwork O When I was 12 or 13, I stumbled upon anarcho syndicalism of the Bookchin Rocker variety and was convinced it was solely capable of saving the world At age 16, I saw Kubrick s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange and found myself adamantly rooting for the omnipotent state, since it appeared to be morally superior to the violent autonomous gang member Alex If Cory Doctorow s unique novel Walkaway serves no other purpose, it can be an antidote or foil of sorts for Anthony Burgess s A Clockwork Orange Sure, every variety of an...Did not finish I hate not finishing books, but I just couldn t go on 25% in and no story Vague characters with no goals.What you DO get is a speculative techno utopia in which it s just assumed you can obtain the raw materials to manufacture arbitrarily complex technology such as 3D printers, wet printers ...Cool ideas but I got bogged down with the preachy dialogue.Second read Still just as hard to review and read, and still just as hard hitting as it was the first time around this is an amazing book.This is a really hard book to review, but on the other hand I loved it.It s not an easy book to read I m a reader who ll make her way through the average novel in half a day, and this took me a solid week It s not a book you can skim or speed read through every so often, in the middle of an escape or situating into a new moment, a character will begin Second read Still just as...tl dr This was painful to read, the literary equivalent of shuffling through knee deep wet concrete I kept expecting it to get better, it didn t.So, he asked rhetorically , can William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson and Neal Stephenson all be wrong Based upon the blurbs for this book, yup, yup, yup Either that or they all read the super secret version that has not yet been released unto the eyes of the profane, since I honestly see no way they read this turkey Characters randomly popped in tl dr This was painful to read, the literary equivalent of shuffling through knee deep wet concrete I kept expecting it to get better, it didn t.So, he asked rhetorically , can William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson and Neal Stephenson all be wrong Based upon the blurbs for this book, yup, yup, yup Either that or they all read the super secret version that has not yet been release...I was disappointed with WALKAWAY There was some great world building but I did not connect with the characters or their motivations I liked the original premise but I found the story to be disjointed and the pacing confused me in a couple places.My Video Review are some things I loved There is tons of diversity with pan, bi, lesbian characters as well as POC characters I liked the science and ideas of a possible future, but there were a fair amount of things I didn t.Sigh The first Doctorow book I wanted to walkaway from.I love Doctorow I fell in love with Makers and never looked back So, after Pirate Cinema, I was waiting for something new, and this book read in the byline like a new Makers I was elated Sadly, it was not.The problem with this book was that it was just so sure of itself the whole time The future was bleak, and rightfully so, but nothing felt tangible The people were always spewing pages long rabble like a conversation between universi Sigh The first Doctorow book I wanted to walkaway from.I love Doctorow I fell in love with Makers and never looked back So, after Pirate Cinema, I was waiting for something new, and this book read in the byline like a new Makers I was elated Sadly, it was not.The problem with this book was that it was just so sure of itself the whole time The future was bleak, and rightfully so, but nothing felt tangible The people were always spewing pages long rabble like a conversation between university students after a bong sesh It was just so blatantly anti establishment that there felt like there was no story.B...I actually found this book a lotenjoyable than expected, given that I m not much of a sci fi reader nor have I ever been to Burning Man and have absolutely no intention to do so.

Walkaway
  • English
  • 25 May 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 384 pages
  • Cory Doctorow
  • Walkaway