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Freedom! is certainly a product of its time utilizing all of the jargon and clichés that were in vouge during the time of its writing, particularly including the author's use of "non-violent communication" throughout.

There are several better books about the philosophy of libertarianism. In particular I would recommend Healing our World by Mary Ruwart.

@gersande@millefeuilles.cloud yeah, that's not going to happen. A communist revolution is more likely to occur in the states than the elimination of college football.

I have liked all of Doctorow's books I have read but I felt Pirate Cinema was even better than his more will known works.

In a near future Britian a teenage boy gets his family cut off from the internet for one year for torrenting classic movies. He was using them to remix his own movies.

In hope of running away from his problems he runs away to London and ends up in a homeless shelter, where he meets some pretty dodgy characters who teach him how to squat and pan handle and he ends up with more time to download more movies and make more movies.

He meets a beautiful girl and falls in love and accidentally becomes the leader of a pro-piracy movement.

It just felt so realistic, I cried, I laughed, I hoped he'd get laid. If I had anything negative it would be that the love interest Twenty-Six, nor her family, felt Indian at all. I've had dozens of friends from dozens of different Indian states, and they felt nothing like them to the point I honestly wonder if Doctorow knows any Indians.