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30142	Doctorow, Cory	Little Brother			.txt	text/plain	124084	10356	91	What's more, kids were clearly being used as guinea-pigs for a new kind of technological state that all of us were on our way to, a world where taking a picture was either piracy (in a movie theater or museum or even a Starbucks), or terrorism (in a public place), but where we could be photographed, tracked and logged hundreds of times a day by every tin-pot dictator, cop, bureaucrat and shop-keeper. "I can talk about Little Brother in terms of its bravura political speculation or its brilliant uses of technology -each of which make this book a must-read -but, at the end of it all, I'm haunted by the universality of Marcus's rite-of-passage and struggle, an experience any teen today is going to grasp: the moment when you choose what your life will mean and how to achieve it." He looked like he was Chinese or Korean -even Van can't tell the difference sometimes -but with that bearing that said *American* in a way I couldn't put my finger on.	./cache/30142.txt	./txt/30142.txt