Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow

so-so

This is one of the strangest books I‘ve ever read. It‘s like a surreal book had a baby with a dimestore novel with cyberpunk grandparents.
The main character is the child of a washing machine and a mountain and he has strange brothers. He tries to be a good man, and he tries to make peoples lives better until his family starts to pull him back into death and chaos.
1.5/5, I couldn‘t stop reading it, but I wish I hadn‘t read it.

Leftcoastzen Such a beauty!🐶 2y

iread2much @Leftcoastzen thank you 2y

dabbe Love the puppy! Want to kiss the face! ❣️🐾❣️ 2y

iread2much @dabbe thank you he‘s a special boy 2y

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RamsFan1963

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow

📚 Tagged, The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James, Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
✒ Robert Silverberg, John Scalzi
📺 Star Trek (TOS)
📽 Something Wicked This Way Comes, Silverado, The Secret of My Success
🎙 Steely Dan, Simon & Garfunkel, Squeeze, Split Enz
🎶 Superman's Song/Crash Test Dummies, The Sound of Silence/Simon & Garfunkel

RamsFan1963 Self Esteem/The Offspring, Some Like It Hot/The Power Station, Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough/Patty Smyth & Don Henley 2y

RamsFan1963 #manicmonday #LetterS @CBee 2y

Bklover There was a Robert Silverberg book that I read years ago and loved it! Still have it on my shelves but can‘t remember the name. 2y

Bklover Just googled. Easier than looking for it. Lord Valentine‘s Castle. All I remember is there were jugglers! 2y

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catsuit_mango

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow

A weird book so far. Probably not the most aligned with an art deco hotel room by the sea... Oh well ;)

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Squidapus

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow

pick

Squidapus thought this book was pretty good. It's like there are two different books side by side in this, one about a man dealing with his magic/weird family and life and one about a startup anarchic Wifi Router business. The author has really strong feelings about Telecom. What hurts the book is that the ending SUUUUUCCCKKKEEEDDD. A reveal happens that nobody reacts to, he gets a relationship he didn't earn and an entire plot just didn't matter.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk This one felt more like a repository of the authors (admittedly interesting) ideas than it did a coherent story. 5y

Squidapus @TobeyTheScavengerMonk Squidapus agrees. There were a number of sections that just weren't contiguous with anything else 5y

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Squidapus

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow

Squidapus has found a nice balance of reading a new book and then a backlog book to keep things fresh and not to leave so many books unread while grabbing more. He's had this one a while and a story where the MCs dad is a mountain and Mom is a washing machine sounds like lighter fair. Then again, he thought that about Space Unicorn Blues and that shit was heavy yo.

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Sarz

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow

1. I really enjoyed Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther and Deadpool.
2. Mini-golf
3. 73, but it's more my favourite number rather than my lucky number
4. I don't do it often so I had to think quite a while back.

@jesshowbooks #friyayintro

Guildedearlobe I moved in next to a mini golf place two years ago yet still can‘t entice people to go play with me. What‘s wrong with people? 6y

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