Makers

i agree that the below are all valid criticisms, but they are followed by the mitgating factor for me personally:

yes.....it's like reading boing boing in book form, but i like boing boing.

yes.....it is proselytizing, but i'm a member of that church.

yes.....it's speculative fiction with only minor amounts of technical detail. if i wanted technical details, i would read a manual or a technical journal, not a novel.


what i liked: the same things i like about doctorow's other books. economics and tech.

what i didn't like: the dialogue is pretty stilted, sometimes distractingly so. the story meanders a bit.

i found it entertaining. i enjoyed it.