Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom


Read by Cory Doctorow

(4.2 stars; 28 reviews)

Jules is a young man, barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.

Disney World! The greatest achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.

Now, though, the "ad-hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself.

Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war...


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(2.5 stars)

As a lover of all things Disney I had to give this one a try. The details about the Magic Kingdom were fun to hear told in story form, though the literature itself was fairly absurd. Odd language with no explanation (such as "woofy") takes a while to catch on to but the futuristic sci-fi ideas of self restoration from computer back up & flash baking imprints on the brain were good food for thought. All in all, Id never have completed this book if reading it for myself, but not a terrible way to kill the weeks monotony of a 45 minute work commute.


By the time I was half way through listening to this novel I reallised I was never really going to come to grips with all aspects of the strange world in which it resides, so I gave up and instead concetrated on the main essence of the story and the ...


Am I the only one to notice that they make it a huge point that they are in DISNEY WORLD through out this book... but when he is murdered in the Tiki Room... he is taken out under Sleeping Beauty's Castle. Sleeping Beauty's Castle is in Disney Land, it is ...


Like everyone else i'm a big fan of Cory and apreciate the podiocast... but oh gawwwd, the whiny voice of the protaganist! give me a gun, i'll shoot him myself, and his backups! The heat death of the universe cant come soon enough!


I loved this book. It was so creative. I hadn't read or heard of it before. I thought the premises alone were already extremely entertaining. But then the plot and character development were also very interesting and somewhat compelling. Not to mention that in an understated kind of way the ...

woofiiie


(5 stars)

Liked it the first time I read it, I liked it just as well this time. Tales of reputations that are the currency of the day being won and lost .


(5 stars)

superbly articulated possibility for mans future


Amazing that Cory wrote this as long ago as '03 - it really projects trends at that time ahead very well. I just finished reading an article that stated that Khloe Kardashian can today be paid $8,235 for an endorsement Tweet and Lindsay Lohan can only charge $2,353. Talk about ...