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Lädt ... Makers (2010. Auflage)von Cory Doctorow
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Doctorow spends too much time on boing boing self promoting his books. At the same time too much of his books are devoted to wacky gizmos that we've read about the year before on boing boing. His last novel Little Brother was a powerhouse of post 9/11 paranoia and at the time very current. Many of his concepts seem almost too current, and quickly outdated the year past their publishing. So is the case with Makers. Every other paragraph is devoted to highlighting the funky gadgets the Maker Duo come up with. Which has left little in the way of character or plot. Instead it reads like...dialogue dialogue dialogue....funky device or idea...mention of a real life researcher who came up with a funky device...dialogue dialogue...another funky device. Huge spans of time are skipped over which "sum-up" all the cool stuff you'd want to read about. I've spent my fair share of time tinkering with gizmo's and cannibalizing spare parts to make something new. It's exciting and I love it. But Makers takes away that joy by giving you too much information and not enough heart to connect to any of it. IMO, it wasn't up to Doctorow's usual standards. The story didn't hold me, and his portrayal of overweight folks really rubbed me the wrong way. (Oh yes, they're all waiting for a cure that lets them eat 10,000 calories per day - and when they finally get thin they do nothing but worry about their wardrobe when they're not sleeping with each other). Particularly disappointing because I know he can do *far* better. Gave up about half way through... keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
What happens to America when two geeks working from a garage invent easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity, and crowd-sourced theme parks? Lawsuits against Disney are only the beginning in this major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America in the age of open source and its hero/hacker culture. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Most troubling for me was the cloying arrogance Doctorow was displaying towards people. Even background characters are noted to be fat, acned, smelly, dull, lacking fashion sense, etc. I came away thinking far less of Doctorow as a person than I did of the kinds of people he was skewering.
In any event, I found myself just wanting the story to move along faster and get to a point. Good thing he added the Epilogue, which ends the book on a very human, very bittersweet note. ( )