Gabrielle Zevin
- memoirs of a teenage amnesiac
In any case, Will liked composing letters on the type-writer, even when it would have been much easier to send an e-mail or call a person on the phone. Incidentally, the boy wasn't anti-technology; he just had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten.
Rick Riordan
- The Last Olympian
And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!