'Spook Country,' a novel by William Gibson

[Richard Ryan]

Pattern Recognition has one or two decent moments, but
all in all was something of a disaster.  Cayce is one
of the most unlikable, self-pitying protagonists ever
put on paper - I mean really: in a world full of all
manner of suffering and horror we're asked to take
seriously the problems of a whimpering fashionista
who's afraid of ***THE MICHELIN MAN***?  The scene in
which she manages to fend off two burly mobsters with
her unexplained martial skills is ludicrous (kind of
like Ricky Nelson as a hardened gunslinger in Rio
Bravo.)  And the 9/11 references are cheap and
completely unearned.  Maybe Gibson's worst book.


--- rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought Pattern Recognition was disappointing ,the
> 2nd half of the novel
> lost something. the sense of dread I suppose. was
> more about advertising
> than anything sinisterly metaphysical
> 
> i can't tell him and rick moody apart
> Rich
> 
> 
> On 8/6/07, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I like Gibson's writing also.  It's been a while
> since I've read
> > anything by him, but I remember thinking his
> writing was better than
> > all those other sci-fi writers.
> >
> > Here's his blog:
> >
> > http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp
> >
> > On 8/3/07, Brent Edwards <cbrente at alltel.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I feel that Gibson is one of a very few
> contemporary authors who
> > continues to raise his own bar. His prose, and
> more importantly the depth of
> > his ideas, seems to improve with each new work
> even though he's been at it
> > for almost 25 years now.
> >
>