Julia W. reviewed For very bright young geeks and wannabes --- PLEASE READ!!! on + 32 more book reviews
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~9/3/08 A YA, very hip version of 1984, Marcus, who is also called w1n5t0n and M1k3y, is 17 years old and in the Tenderloin with three friends ARGing (its a game) when a bomb blows up the Bay Bridge. They go the Powell Street BART station, but they dont stay there.
The Department of Homeland Security arrests them, puts them first in Alcatraz, then at Treasure Island, where they are interrogated, tortured, humiliated as enemy aliens. Marcus and two of his friends are released after five days. They are told by the DHS that if they tell anyone what happened they will be arrested again and put somewhere much worse.
So, Marcus doesnt tell his parents, other friends, and he fights the DHS using his Xbox. Meanwhile, the DHS presence is becoming omnipresent: all to keep people safe.
You cant get anything done by doing nothing. Its our country. Theyve taken it away from us. The terrorists who attack us are still free -- but were not. I cant go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
I am 35 years too old to be the intended audience for this book, I dont understand most of the technology Marcus fights or uses as weapons, but I recognize that its an amazing thesis. And I hope it is as popular with bright young geeks as it should and needs to be. I want thousands of adolescents to view it as a manual.
The Department of Homeland Security arrests them, puts them first in Alcatraz, then at Treasure Island, where they are interrogated, tortured, humiliated as enemy aliens. Marcus and two of his friends are released after five days. They are told by the DHS that if they tell anyone what happened they will be arrested again and put somewhere much worse.
So, Marcus doesnt tell his parents, other friends, and he fights the DHS using his Xbox. Meanwhile, the DHS presence is becoming omnipresent: all to keep people safe.
You cant get anything done by doing nothing. Its our country. Theyve taken it away from us. The terrorists who attack us are still free -- but were not. I cant go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
I am 35 years too old to be the intended audience for this book, I dont understand most of the technology Marcus fights or uses as weapons, but I recognize that its an amazing thesis. And I hope it is as popular with bright young geeks as it should and needs to be. I want thousands of adolescents to view it as a manual.
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