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Title: Cute doesn't a novel write
Review: Doctorow is a good writer. If you're familiar with Boing Boing, you'll probably know him as a writer and editor there and I've certainly enjoyed what he had to say in that forum and other online ones.However I feel suckered when I laid out $13 to read this piece of fluff that's masquerading as a novel. The characters are extremely weak and the plot just drifts along without coming to any sort of solid conclusion. The ideas behind the book are interesting but I just don't think they're worth reading about in a novel that's as uncompelling as this one. You can see where he's taken current trends in how technology is shaping society and twists them to an absurdist end, but at best they're material a cute little 'gee wiz' short story, not a full novel.I'd stick to boing boing and skip this one.
