The Lost Cause - The Library of the Uncommons

Rainer reviewed The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow

Highly relevant and entertaining

4 stars

Doctorow does a really good job of building out the world and the society that the main characters live in. This book still fell prey to the one complaint that I have with Doctorow's fictional writing, which is that all of the main characters (regardless of age/gender/etc) seem to speak with his voice. An example of this would be an adolescent teenage boy calling a teenage girl "a good egg". I have trouble seeing a young person actually talking like that.

However, even with that minor nagging complaint, this was a great book!

Doctorow does a really good job of building out the world and the society that the main characters live in. This book still fell prey to the one complaint that I have with Doctorow's fictional writing, which is that all of the main characters (regardless of age/gender/etc) seem to speak with his voice. An example of this would be an adolescent teenage boy calling a teenage girl "a good egg". I have trouble seeing a young person actually talking like that.

However, even with that minor nagging complaint, this was a great book!

loppear reviewed The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow

excellent doctorow on near climate and political violence

3 stars

Doctorow at his strongest, ala Little Brother, didactic and engaging, young characters imagining freedom to work together on new ways to respond to current climate challenges and reactionary repression.

Apollo reviewed The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow

Doctorow at His Best, An Excellent Climate Novel

5 stars

This is an excellent speculative novel that addresses the challenges of climate change, how people with the same aims can struggle to agree on means, and what happens when we win meaningful change.