i have just started reading Cory Doctorow's book "Down and out in the magic kingdom" on my telephone, when i'm in the métro (get it here :
http://www.booksinmyphone.com). and i admit i'm having a bit of a problem. i believe i understand the basic concept of the story so far, however i'm having a lot of trouble with the individual words. and the problem of a téléphone vs. my liseuse (other than the obvious ones of screen size, etc.) : no dictionary lookup. not that it would help, because actually i'm pretty sure that most of the words i don't understand are words that he made up. i do *like* the way he writes, it's just rather abstruse to me for the moment. i'm hoping i will understand more as i go along (i just started it yesterday, and by the time i finished the blurbs, and the explanation of the new licence, and the original explanation of the original licence, and the prologue, i only had time to read a few paragraphs of the actual story before i was at my station and had to stop).
i don't read very much Science fiction usually (which may be part of the problem) but i wanted to try something by him because i've heard so much about him, and because i really like his philosophy from what i've read of it. so i'm going to stick with it. but i suspect that it may require a lot more effort than "Three Men in a Boat" which is what i read on my telephone just before...