William Gibson, The Peripheral (2014)

[Keith Davis]

Just read Pattern Recognition and really liked it, but there was a point where it got a little happy ending-ish, like I started to recognize the pattern... Still enjoyed it a lot. Reading Idoru now and digging it.

Just finished listening to Inherent Vice on CD, and really enjoyed that, too. The narrator did a great job.


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> On Sep 15, 2014, at 3:28 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> All Tomorrow's Parties is actually my favorite. Idoru is underappreciated. I liked Pattern Recognition fine, but Gibson faced a problem Pynchon didn't, i.e., pretty much having to provide some sort of solution ( he chuckled hn I asked, facetiously, if he was familiar w/ Lot 49). I still haven't read th last on myself, bu am looking forward to this one.
> 
> On Monday, September 15, 2014, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cool, I shall pick it up. Loved Neuromancer back in HS but I re-read it recently, like a year or so ago, and it wasn't quite as awesome as I remember. I like it still but I dunno, there are a few annoying bits that are just too cool for school but it's endearing in a way I guess, that's how I look at it. Maybe it just reminded me of being a stupid kid. It remains something any Gibson fan must read though of course. Pattern Recognition is a better book imo, a lot may disagree though I'm not sure. Anyway The Peripheral looks promising with the description of it being a return to sci-fi melded with his newer novels that take place in the recent past. I'm still wary of those book blurbs and descriptions, I don't wanna get my hopes up too high, but I watched that video of him reading the first few pages and it sounded purdy good to me. It's something to quell my anticipation for the Inherent Vice movie in the meantime at any rate.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> >> I am absolutely going to read The Peripheral  -  I’ve been a Gibson fan since Pattern Recognition and read Spook Country and Zero History as soon as it came out.  Those three are kind of connected.  I still haven’t got to Neuromancer but it’s been on my shelves for too long.
> >>
> >> Bekah
> >>
> >> On Sep 14, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > I think I might like it. Still haven't got around to Spook Country or Zero History but I think I'll pick this up, have something in the near future to look forward to. Anyone else gonna read it? Maybe make it a thing we can talk about here?
> >> >
> >> > On Sep 14, 2014 7:28 PM, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > http://www.penguin.com/book/the-peripheral-by-william-gibson/9780399158445
> >> >
> >> > http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral
> >> >
> >> > http://io9.com/watch-william-gibson-read-from-his-brand-new-science-fi-484885010
> >> >
> >> > http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/the-peripheral-by-william-gibson-cover-art-and-synopsis
> >> >
> >> > http://www.bookdepository.com/Peripheral-William-Gibson/9780399158445?b=-3&t=-20#Fulldescription-20
> >>
> >
> >
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