Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment

[Markekohut]

Go ahead and read some of his responses to people who engaged him on it. I'm not bothering 
To send them around. 
The trailer wasn't flip either.
How is one supposed to deal with the criticism of a simple label that people not only Gibson use?....that Carvill just did, that Penguin Press did for the last two books and as publishers now do?
Ridiculous by definition. Okay then. 
Another layer of its genius. 

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:34 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gibson is too smart to have been serious.  He was being flip about a flip novel trailer.  In fact  "novel trailer" seems almost ridiculous by definition.
> 
> On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>> No, afraid he meant it. Doesn't make him right but I think he was. 
>> But I sent my opinion around on the guitar long ago now. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> >The author  William Gibson called it, "Absolutely the best novel trailer so far in the history of the world."
>>> 
>>> Right. But he was presumably just exercising his authorial right to be ridiculous. I mean, this wasn't even the best novel trailer since Pynchon's last novel trailer.
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