Lost Cause

The main premise is both thought provoking and exciting. However, I had a hard time relating to any of the characters.

Doctorow does a really good job of building out the world and the society that the main characters live in. This book still fell prey to the one complaint that I have with Doctorow's fictional writing, which is that all of the main characters (regardless of age/gender/etc) seem to speak with his voice. An example of this would be an adolescent teenage boy calling a teenage girl "a good egg". I have trouble seeing a young person actually talking like that.

However, even with that minor nagging complaint, this was a great book!

I didn't dislike The Lost Cause, but it definitely wasn't my favorite of his books. The sentiment I agree with, but something about the unbridled optimism of the youth felt off to me. Maybe it's just me getting old and jaded.