He'll use a word that you've never heard before but you'll know exactly what he means by it and by the end of the book you'll forget that people don't talk like that yet. He writes like somebody who's living a couple years in the future, throwing out new slang that just sounds right. Because the novel takes place over a long period, there's enough time for the characters to really develop and change and you really get to know and love them, even the villains.ĭoctorow's writing is superb. It's also a story about friendships and business relationships strained to the breaking point and beyond, and the patched together again. Mechanical computers made of soda cans that perform computations using Barbie heads and M&Ms.

Russian clinics that specialize in extreme hormone/metabolism/stem cell treatments that help the obese lose incredible amounts of weight - who then have to eat thousands of calories per meal just to keep from starving away. It contains multitudes: Disney (with its rising and falling fortunes) and a particularly despicable VP make a great villain, as does Rat-Tooth Freddy, a British mud-slinging journalist who likes nothing more than tearing down other people with big ideas.

I've already given away more of the plot than I usually like to, but this is a book that just makes you want to talk about it.

Makers by cory doctorow