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Book Notes 3: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

Posted on 2006-02-07 by Martin McCallion
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Cory Doctorow’s third novel is his best so far; and it’s strange. Really, really strange.

It is the story of a man whose father is a mountain and whose mother is a washing machine. These are not metaphors.
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