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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Cory Doctorow

Paperback | Pages: 315 pages

Rating: 3.51 | 3199 Users | 365 Reviews

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Original Title:	Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
ISBN:	0765312808 (ISBN13: 9780765312808)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2006), Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2006)

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Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.

Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls.

Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge.

Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city's dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.

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Title	:	Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Author	:	Cory Doctorow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 315 pages
Published	:	May 30th 2006 by Tor Books (first published July 2005)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Urban Fantasy

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Ratings: 3.51 From 3199 Users | 365 Reviews

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I felt the book had a lot of promise but failed to deliver on it. The story seems to just be the beginning and then comes to a climax of the side story while leaving the main completely in the dark.I enjoyed some of the characters, but found them to act at random and be dull in general. Relationships were unexplained and why two characters team up together is just impossible to work out.I also feel the book is too much of a political statement by the author. The more I read about the Wireless

This is one of those books that makes strenuous demands on the reader, defying classification and pushing metaphor as far as it will go. Depending on whether you throw it down in disgust or allow it to seduce you, you will love it or hate it but you cannot remain unmoved by this stunning tour de force unless you have the imagination of a pea. But then you would never have found this book.Raised in a dysfunctional family by a remote father and a mother who provides only comfort and clean

There were some amazing beginnings in this book. Or some potentially amazing ideas. That is, they could have been amazing ideas, had Doctorow seen any of them through to completion. While that is almost the hallmark of Doctorow's novels, I found that the first three in particular were so scattered and poorly structured that the ideas themselves actually suffered. In this case there are also two main stories at play which really have very little to do with each other: the story of A and his

I thought this book was only good. I hated the first 40 or 50 pages which is something I can't just ignore. Those first pages seemed very male oriented and I felt like I couldn't relate to the story or characters at all, but once I got passed those first pages I became more engaged in the story, especially once the character of Kurt was introduced. Kurt was definitely my favorite character and he made the story actually enjoyable to me. I was okay with the other characters. They didn't really

This is one of those books that makes strenuous demands on the reader, defying classification and pushing metaphor as far as it will go. Depending on whether you throw it down in disgust or allow it to seduce you, you will love it or hate it but you cannot remain unmoved by this stunning tour de force unless you have the imagination of a pea. But then you would never have found this book.Raised in a dysfunctional family by a remote father and a mother who provides only comfort and clean

Loved it. Seemed like a departure from Doctorow's usual fare. A sort of fantasy horrorish kind of thing. With a bit of technology shoved in to keep it science fictiony. It was a great story though and the characters were well developed, likeable and despiseable. And a few twists.

There were moments when I was thinking, 5 star book? But no... while this book was a very enjoyable read, something I was glad to read rather than having felt like I was just sort of killing time in a not unpleasant fashion, 3 star style, it has a couple of flaws.First, it is a novel of x,y,z, and internet connectivity. The IC is a hobbyhorse of the author, but does not actually contribute anything to the plot of this book, other than to give the protagonist an excuse for a friend. Second, weak