'Spook Country,' a novel by William Gibson

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Only read Neuromancer recently.  While I could see how innovative it must have been when it came out, it doesn't hold up, especially post-Matrix (which Gibson was nice enough not to litigate over).  I definitely don't feel the urge to read the rest of the Sprawl trilogy, unless someone can convince me the next two books are qualitatively better.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>

>
>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.
>> >
>> 
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