Customer Rating:
Summary: Wow. Simply wow.
Comment: I grabbed this book off the "new" shelf in my public library. I just thought, "Oh, look, a book I haven't read yet." I've read many, many books. This book has turned out to be one of my favorites. I don't know a whole lot about tech stuff, but this was one heck of a story. I stayed up late for several days because I was unable to put this book down. This book showed me what the government could do, if it really wanted to, and that sometimes protesting quietly is the best way to screw them over. I hope that every person who like to read will get their hands on this book. It was absolutely amazing.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Will make you paranoid!
Comment: This book is an excellent read. If you are not a little worried about how our government has eroded much of the freedoms and rights we take for granted you will be after reading this book.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid book.
Comment: This book wasn't exactly how I expected it to be, but i still actually enjoyed it a lot. While a little overdone, it was an eye-opener and can give you some perspective. The narrator was good and a worthy character. All in all, this book was pretty good.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Laugh-out-loud bad
Comment: Don't worry, after about eight chapters this book will come to resemble a childish attempt at a young adult novel. To get there, though, you'll have to stumble the most stunningly bad writing to be found anywhere outside of Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Try this one: "The arphid died in a shower of sparks, which was really quite lovely (though not nearly as pretty as the effect you get when you nuke a frozen grape, which has to be seen to be believed)." Here we see Cory rehashing one of his old blog posts. You'll find many posts from Boing Boing regurgitated into this book, on subjects such as "Defeat WoW spyware using Sony's rootkit", "HOWTO Use TOR to protect yourself from censorship and snooping", "Manga is fuelled by infringement", and "Conspiracy theory of the day: Dell Laptop with built-in keylogger". The ideas, and sometimes the posts word for word, are taken from the blog and plopped right into the book with very little context to justify it.

Here's another one: "Homeless people cowered in doorways and watched it all, while a tall black tranny hooker shouted at two mustachioed men about something." This book is for middle-class white kids = black people are scary. By the way, we met one of our side characters, Vanessa, as she emerged from a group of Korean tourists she was "blending in" to, although she is Japanese. Heh heh. All them Asians look the same.

Another: "The Universal was supposed to be totally bulletproof. The high school kids who broke it were Brazilian Linux hackers who lived in a favela -- a kind of squatter's slum." The portrayal of homeless Brazilians as having nothing better to do with their time than hack Xboxes frankly leaves me at a loss for words.

Just two more, I promise:

"She was totally h4wt -- that is to say, hot."

"I had a boner that could cut glass."

God, I'm done here. Any professional reviewer who called his book good should be ashamed of themselves.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome!
Comment: This is what the world will become if we don't stand up and make our government stop fighting us and do some real security.

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