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Click here for a free download of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

If you are a hacker, a freedom fighter, or simply love America, READ THIS BOOK. I loved, you will to.

Post a short description of the book.
I don't want to download it without knowing exactly what it's about.

From Wikipedia:

Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow. The novel is about several teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against what they see as the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights

Eehhh, doesn't sound like something I would enjoy reading.

Read it. It's awesome,funny,scary,sexy,cool,smart,and geeky all at the same time. This book is like…….god, i don't even know how to tell you how much this book means to me.
I've read it fourteen times and i love it every time.
Plot summary, a la Wikipedia:
The main character, Marcus Yallow, also known by his handle w1n5t0n (the name Winston written using leetspeak), and three of his friends are truant from high school and find themselves near a terrorist bombing of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The friends try to get help for Darryl who was stabbed while they escaped the massing crowd headed for a fallout shelter. The foursome are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and held as enemy combatants because of their suspicious behavior, including having encryption on Marcus' cell phone.

After three days of interrogation by psychological torture and humiliation, Marcus is released to find that San Francisco has become a police state. Marcus and two of his other friends, Van (Vanessa) and Jolu (Jose Luis) are released after being forced to sign documents stating they were voluntarily held and interrogated by DHS. The main antagonist Carrie Johnstone (known as Severe Haircut Woman throughout most of the novel) is introduced while interrogating Marcus.

His best friend Darryl, who was stabbed after the bombing, is not released after the interrogation, and provides Marcus' main motivation to fight back against the DHS. Marcus dedicates the majority of his time to organizing resistance to the DHS while his relationship with both his friends and family deteriorates. Both of his remaining friends from the original foursome, Van and Jolu, drop out because of fear of retribution by DHS. While his relationship with his mother (Lillian) stays strong, he and his father (Drew Yallow) are sharply divided over DHS's tactics and control over the Bay area.

However, while organizing resistance, he develops new friendships and a love interest, Ange (Angela Carvelli), that help support him during his doubts and fears over fighting the federal government. He helps develop a clandestine wireless network, X-Net, that avoids DHS monitoring using anonymity and encryption. Using the X-Net as a secure communications medium, he organizes teenagers and twenty-somethings who are upset with the police state tactics imposed after the bombing. They develop innovative uses of existing technologies to foil DHS monitoring and cause mass confusion and embarrassment to law enforcement.

After learning that his best friend, Darryl, is not dead, but still being held in a secret prison on nearby Treasure Island Marcus starts a series of events that culminates in his final confrontation with the DHS. Starting with his confession, to his parents and Darryl's father, of what really happened the three days he was imprisoned, he gives all of his information to an investigative reporter friend. This leads to his being imprisoned and tortured (specifically with waterboarding) by the DHS, personified by the Severe Haircut Lady. He is rescued by the California Highway State Patrol (CHSP) after the governor of California acts on the information provided in the news article. He finds his friend Darryl alive, if severely traumatized by his treatment, as well as his girlfriend Ange in the Treasure Island secret prison.

The novel ends with Marcus' life going back to "normal" and DHS's losing power even though no one from the DHS is actually punished despite video proof of DHS personnel torturing him. Marcus seems to be happy with his life and relationships with both his girlfriend and parents. However, he dedicates a lot of his time to campaigning against the established political party that let this happen to U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.

I'm more a fantasy/sci-fi lover when it comes to books.
And everything else

This is really cyberpunk/technophile fiction. You'd get a kick out of it. In fact…..you'll be a little paranoid after reading…the government is really scary looking after reading this book

Government books are whack, yo.

It's not a government book. it's about hackers fighting the government for their freedom, because they don't want to give up being free in order to be "safe".

You should read this book :3

So, it's basically this movie?

That was an amazing book.
You have terrible taste in books my friend.

No. IT is not the movie. It is our future.
Ps: actually, moargun, i was thinking of a different book. I have not read it.
pps. Has anyone read "The Dirt Eaters" or any other book in the Longlight Legacy?

Illuminati? Who are u, Dan Brown?

I find it funny that you would post information from Wikipedia, not from the site itself, with out letting us know anything about the link you have provide, any legal information, and than expect us to just jump on in, and download this EBook.

Info from site:It’s timely, smart, relatable, realistic, thought-provoking and fun, and that’s why I strongly believe that readers will be talking about Cory Doctorow’s novel for a very long time.
Fantasy Book Critic

Remember the scene in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress where Manny sketches a structure for an underground organization? Now imagine that, done properly. With X-boxes.
Ken Macleod, author of The Cassini Division and The Execution Channel

Doctorow makes the technology so easy to understand it becomes practically invisible--except, of course, to eyes trained to find ways to make it break. Granted, some of the strokes he uses to paint the bad guys are overly broad, but this is still one of the most awesome books any young adult could read this summer… and one of the most important novels anyone of voting age could read in the months leading up to our next election.
Ron Hogan, Galleycat

Marcus is a wonderfully developed character: hyperaware of his surroundings, trying to redress past wrongs, and rebelling against authority. Teen espionage fans will appreciate the numerous gadgets made from everyday materials. One afterword by a noted cryptologist and another from an infamous hacker further reflect Doctorow's principles, and a bibliography has resources for teens interested in intellectual freedom, information access, and technology enhancements.
School Library Journal

A worthy younger sibling to Orwell's 1984, Cory Doctorow's LITTLE BROTHER is lively, precocious, and most importantly, a little scary.
Brian K Vaughn, author of Y: The Last Man

It's about growing up in the near future where things have kept going on the way they've been going, and it's about hacking as a habit of mind, but mostly it's about growing up and changing and looking at the world and asking what you can do about that. The teenage voice is pitch-perfect. I couldn't put it down, and I loved it.
Jo Walton, author of Farthing

The right book at the right time from the right author -- and, not entirely coincidentally, Cory Doctorow's best novel yet.
John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.
Jane McGonical, Designer, I Love Bees

Little Brother is a scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans. A teenage hacker-turned-hero pits himself against the government to fight for his basic freedoms. This book is action-packed with tales of courage, technology, and demonstrations of digital disobedience as the technophile's civil protest.
Andrew "bunnie" Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.
Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Extras

"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.
Steven C. Gould, author of Jumper

You guys should totally read this book:

^ Total classic.

ashbots on the ball

Damn straight!

IT ARE TEH BEST BOOK EVAR

SHE IS SUCH ROGUE

best book EVER!?
I believe the one where Conan molests you in bed is a real winner

https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/general/topics/4230-the-worlds-most-disturbing-childrens-book

jostin,who turned you evil D:

Love this book, so damn awesome.

See this book? You go get it right now.

@chef

That was disturbing but interesting. I liked it. Where the hell did you find this book?

I didn't necessarily find it, it was from the thread that I posted a link to, but the site it came from is here. I have no idea what the book is called, though.

@Hot Tea
Don't forget Maverick.

By the way, this is the best book ever.

This guy is awesome:

AWARD WINNING

Maybe not the BEST ever written, but one of the best I've read in a while:

^
only because of all the nudity on the cover.

i only see two nude person karnella