Return to Pleasure Island — Cory Doctorow

Return to Pleasure Island -- Cory DoctorowAvailable in the collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.

This story is a bit hit and miss for me.   A lot more miss than hit.   A bit of background and context might have made things a lot better.

After i finished reading it, i discovered that, apparently, it’s a Pinocchio spin off.   Which is a bit late to find out.   And maybe that’s the background and context that is utterly absent from this story.   If a writer is going to use another book as background and context to a story then it might be a really, really good idea to at least mention in a fore-word to the story.

I’ve never read Pinocchio, so maybe i’ll go and read it sometime and then give this

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