03-27-2024, 03:39 PM
The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
One of the main selling points for me was that the book has a couple of early chapters set on Avalon Island in the Zane Grey Hotel, a hotel I also stayed at back in the old times. Although Martin Hench, forensic accountant, stayed at a much fancier version of the hotel than I did.
Cory Doctoro is much smarter about the current world of finance and computers than I will ever hope to be. But his books come across as thinly veiled descriptions on inequities of modern society than full blown stories. There is a story and characters in there but there are also a lot of digressions to talk about things. In this case I felt like Doctorow might have watched John Oliver's piece about for profit prisons and how they just take money from the inmates and Doctorow decided that would be his next book. He has a lot of sermons for his pulpit, too from REITs which caused the real estate bust to the three strikes laws.
The Bezzle was good but there is a lot of explaining.
One of the main selling points for me was that the book has a couple of early chapters set on Avalon Island in the Zane Grey Hotel, a hotel I also stayed at back in the old times. Although Martin Hench, forensic accountant, stayed at a much fancier version of the hotel than I did.
Cory Doctoro is much smarter about the current world of finance and computers than I will ever hope to be. But his books come across as thinly veiled descriptions on inequities of modern society than full blown stories. There is a story and characters in there but there are also a lot of digressions to talk about things. In this case I felt like Doctorow might have watched John Oliver's piece about for profit prisons and how they just take money from the inmates and Doctorow decided that would be his next book. He has a lot of sermons for his pulpit, too from REITs which caused the real estate bust to the three strikes laws.
The Bezzle was good but there is a lot of explaining.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm