Review: “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow
posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Lawrence Miller
It would be unfair to review “Little Brother” as a “novel”. In fact it is two books; the first is an engaging coming of age story of a seventeen year old boy struggling with a society that simultaneously treats him as a kid and forces him to grow up all at once, and the second is a primer on all the ways government currently infringes on the personal privacy of its citizens, how it hopes to do so even more in the future, and what each person can do to safeguard pieces of that privacy. “Little Brother” switches frequently and without warning between them. The rant continues…
