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  • Over-zealous wording but a novel idea

  • A little over-wordy in the beginning utilizing terms and acronyms, but it's an interesting idea (and commentary) of a society and political system in a future Disney World / Kissimmee, FL, locale.

    

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• ― JaxSean said on Aug 18, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Fiction by a Disney fanatic. Futuristic… no one dies, they just do a "back-up" and get a fresh body. This guy definitely knows his Disney. Fun for a Walt Disney World fan, and very unusual. I would imagine, though, that the book would get a little tedious if you weren't a big Disney fan.

    

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  • The vocabulary gets in the way in the beginning and by the end, I'm not sure I "got it" entirely.

    

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• ― Kevin Kuphal said on Sep 3, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • This is the kind of science fiction that doesn't even pretend to make sense or have any concept of internal logic because it makes such an adorable, "effective" metaphor.

    

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• ― TFox said on Aug 20, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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 artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century, now in the keeping of a network of volunteers who keep the classic rides and attractions running. Now, though, a new group has taken over the Hall of Presidents, and is replacing its audioanimatronics with 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. Worse: this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war for the soul of the Magic Kingdom! Bursting with cutting-edge speculation and warm human insights, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom reads like Neal Stephenson meets Nick Hornby: a coming-of-age romantic comedy and a kick-butt cybernetic tour de force.

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