Cory Doctorow: a reading from "Little Brother" book tour
In today's episode of Boing Boing tv, Cory Doctorow checks in from his ongoing book tour for "Little Brother," and reads a passage from this latest novel. We also learn all about the contents of his hotel minibar, and a cool steampunk watch he received which shoots cockroaches accross the room.
Previously on Boing Boing tv:
* Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
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Wow, Cory. For all you spoke about being deprived of sleep, you could have napped instead of making this video. You could have made a video of you napping! We would have watched it. We are your pawns. If BoingBoing posts it, we'll watch it.
Thanks for making this video, though. The read-aloud bit was helpful. I forwarded it my sister to seed the desire to read your cool futuristic book, kinda try to hook her on the semi-sci-fi thing. I think it worked.
Love your book, once started i couldn't stop reading it!
BTW Is there any FAQs files of your novels and stories?
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@learntolovethebomb, don't be a douche here, please. I invited Cory to do this vlog with us, it was our idea, and he was really cool about taking time from a genuinely busy book tour sked to tape this for us. I thought it was fun, and enjoyed it, he's telling it exactly like it is, a day in the life. Your criticism isn't a fair one, and was mean-spirited.
@Gainclone, I'd really like to post more of these with Cory reading passages from his book -- I'm glad you enjoyed it. I did!
Thanks for the update from your hotel, Cory! I especially dug the mini-bar review! Who knew canned oxygen would be a luxury item so soon?
I can't wait to read "Little Brother" for myself and start making some cool stuff for your video challenge as well!
I like how there's so much important info for kids in just the brief bit you read. I will definitely get your book.
On another subject: the problem with envy is that it's almost always disguised as something else, especially to the subject feeling it. All of the objections to "Little Brother" posts are clothed in ostensibly reasonable motivations, but if the objectors were conscious of their own underlying emotions and impulses, they could get clued in to their underlying unhappiness with their own lives and achievements. Was it Hardy who said something to the effect of 'comparison is at the root of much unhappiness'?
Because of the disguise, it's often unrecognizeable, and perplexing, to the object of envy--you--because you're inside the hard work you've done to write the book, spread the book's message, and find the audience for the book.
I'm generally against magical thinking, but I think you might want to put an Evil Eye up with every "Little Brother" post, so as to ward off the evil eye of envy.
Can we get some shots from the base of that monolith with the black squiggles on it? Shots staring up at the top of it, with some bloom from a light source above, with Also Sprach Zarathustra playing? That'd be great.
Thanks, everyone! This has been the tour of a lifetime and it was all SO WORTH IT. I've got two more stops -- private industry things -- before I go back to London, but everywhere I've gone, people have been so kind and effusive and generous -- that's worth any amount of sleep.
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Xeni 4: LTLTB has posted three times on BB, and all three comments have been disemvowelled. If you want to talk to a dipstick, the one in your car is more likely to listen than this one!
Good reading.
Audiobook listener here...ever consider doing an audiobook version?
(you may have already done this, in which case, sorry for asking! :-))
Some people (me!) have to read 1000s of pages of mind bending legal property documents for work and cannot possibly read novels during leisure time, leading to tons of bite size magazine (now blog) reading, occasional poetics, and audio books.
And, some of us, while thoroughly knowledgeable in the classics are only film-art-music knowledgeable in contemporary culture and lack an exposure to quality, vibrant, trenchant contemporary literature.
Also, my beloved GF uses phrasings like 'severe haircut woman'.
When I first heard such linguistic stylings, I found them disagreeable, I admit, thinking them shallow, humorless, false, distasteful, etc., but now find them endearing and cool. I see that the contrarian circles from which she sprung are likely similar to Mr. Doctorow's ...graphic novels, sci-fi, indie music, etc., all things which I like much, but have always explored as an outsider, a scholar-lite, as opposed to a fully immersed cafe-goer.
Also, can't help but think that Spaceballs and canned oxygen go well together.