I’m impressed he managed to read it; these just look awful to me.
Having said that, they’re presumably like candy for a certain kind of reader (apparently including Cory Doctorow). I just have a different sort of literary candy. For instance, I jumped all over Charles Stross’s Laundry novels and Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London novels. First person narrators with self-deprecating humor in otherwise serious novels, spy novel/police procedural pastiches and magic with and without the Cthulhu mythos–what’s not to like?
But not everyone will agree.
