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The Difference Engine (Spectra Special Editions)

99 reviews
William Gibson

Spectra, 1992

Very good book
This book is a definite landmark book, full of good ideas, but it isn't the wonder everyone seems to think it is. Disjointed storytelling in places, a few sex scenes, a bit draggy in the middle and end, but still an interesting book.

Phantom Shanghai

6 reviews
Greg Girard

Magenta Publishing for the Art, 2007

Breathtaking
I almost completely agree with the other reviewers, including the outrageous mis-attribution of the author. The book is by Greg Girard, and only a short, and slightly hyper, forward belongs to Gibson. As for the images, they are among the most haunting and beautiful you will ever see of an urban landscape. I believe the book is a masterpiece. This is made even more poignant by the fact ...

The Terminator

458 reviews

This Blu-ray is clean
I have been waiting for a decent film transfer of this movie since the original DVD which was non-letterbox stereo. Boy did that one suck. I am sure the 2001 DVD release re-mastered from HD and 5.1 audio was much better. But I waited for this one and it's 100x better. The menu is cool but would have been even better with a faster interface response like HD-DVD provided. Let's hope Java-BD ...

Spook Country

127 reviews
William Gibson

Putnam Adult, 2007

It was a Dark and Spooky Novel...
Much has been written about the similarities between the works of William Gibson and Don DeLillo, Certainly, as I read both Pattern Recognition and Spook Country, I couldn't help thinking of White Noise: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library), one of the great books of the past 50 years. Gibson captures the same sense of lurking dread DeLillo masterfully describes, but could never be ...

The Miracle Worker

43 reviews
William Gibson

Pocket, 2002

The miracle worker
I chose this book "The miracle worker" because I knew it was going to be about the adventure of Helen Keller and the way she learned to communicate with her hands because she was blind and deaf. My feelings about the story after I read it was that nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything. Yes, this book was what I thought it would be. I felt the same way ...

Mona Lisa Overdrive

46 reviews
William Gibson

Spectra, 1989

SF NOIR...POETIC DREAMSCAPES OF A DISTOPIC FUTURE...(Part 3)
I have read this masterpiece (together with the other two of the Sprawl series: NEUROMANCER and COUNT ZERO) during my university years, about a decade ago. Since then I have re-read it countless times. Many a times the third book of a trilogy is published only to fulfill contractual obligations: this is definitely NOT the case here. Every one of those three is a standalone masterpiece. Sure, ...

Count Zero

64 reviews
William Gibson

Ace Trade, 2006

A grim world, perfectly captured.
The people, places and events is this book are described in such a way that I can see them all in my mind. The story of the grim world (Earth, sometime in the next 100 years or so)of a young, naive wannabe cyber-cowboy Bobby Newmark (he decides to call himself Count Zero) as his path converges with a corporate mercenary assassin (Turner), a voudou following organized-crime family, and a girl ...

Pattern Recognition

269 reviews
William Gibson

Berkley, 2005

Is it cyberpunk?
Few genres have writers who is more or less synonymous with them. When you think of mysteries, a number of writers come to mind. With horror, Stephen King stands out, but other names are also dominant: Koontz, Straub, Barker, et cetera. With the science fiction sub-genre of cyberpunk, while there may be other authors, it is William Gibson who pretty much is the king of that field. ...

Michael Clayton

176 reviews

TONY GILROY, OPUS 1
****1/2 2007. Written and directed by Tony Gilroy. Academy award earned by Tilda Swinton and 6 other nominations. A powerful law firm gets rid of a lawyer who's about to tell the truth about a multibillion case. MICHAEL CLAYTON reminds us of the time of Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View or Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor, a time when American producers weren't afraid to combine the ...

Neuromancer

445 reviews
William Gibson

Ace Hardcover, 2004

yea its good
While many would say that this is a classic, those same many would go on to qualify that it is a "turbo nerd" classic. I'm going to have to disagree with that assessment: it's just plain ole classic. Gibson has really tuned into something here and has realized it on levels which transcend mere genre classifications. Yes this is a genre work: quote unquote: cyberpunk. But this is just a buzzword ...

Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare)

2 reviews
William Shakespeare

Cambridge University Press, 2005

The lust for illegitimate power
This is one of Shakespeare's plays I have liked best so far (I still have several ones left to read), along with Hamlet, King Lear and Julius Caesar. It is the tragedy of ambition and delusion, and the fatal results of those two vices combined. It is also one of Shakespeare's plays in which the supernatural has a greater participation. Just as Hamlet is driven to revenge by a ghost -his father's- ...

Burning Chrome

65 reviews
William Gibson

Eos, 2003

There are No Maps For These QuickSilver Territories
It can be stated that it is worthy for one to learn English only to be able to read NEW ROSE HOTEL in the original. No translation can do justice to Gibson's fresh prose. I realize that the cannon-setters might not agree, however, for me, these are the BEST 28 pages ever written in English. With Gibson SF entered its Golden Age. All of the short stories contained are excellent. However, my ...

Flying Solo, Fourth Edition: A Survival Guide for Solos and Small Firm Lawyers

1 review

American Bar Association, 2005

Great book for starters, some ideas are better than Foonberg's
I bought both Foonberg's book and this one. Well, I was sick and tired of law firm life and deadly wanted to open my shop. During the time for being ready, I read those books. Flying solo has brand new ideas for lawyers and some ideas are better than Foonberg's. I'm a lawyer in South Korea and I hope many associates of law firms dare to open their own shop. It is a great book.

Michael Clayton

182 reviews

an interesting movie
I thought it was slow at the beginning, but then it started picking up and turned out to be exciting. The plot is good, not straight-forward, but easy to follow and the actors' performances are great. you have a little bit of everything: a conscious attorney trying to make a difference, Clooney somewhere in between, trying to decide which side he is on, Tilda giving a very good performance as ...

All Tomorrow's Parties

128 reviews
William Gibson

Berkley, 2003

Pinocchio, sort of
A "puppet" (in this novel a virtual personality constucted in software) yearns to be a real boy (in this novel... a real girl!). This fine book is the culmination of couple of pseudo-episodic Gibson novels...his writing gets better and better and some of the passages are almost impossibly beautiful in their spare conciseness and wonderful language/syntax. Highly recommended for reading ...

The Ten Commandments

318 reviews

One good, and one evil
The 1956 version of 'The Ten Commandments' is easily one of the most popular films in Hollywood history, eclipsing even Ben-Hur. (Let the protests begin!) Charlton Heston won his only Oscar for his performance in Ben-Hur, but it is in his role as Moses where he clearly had the most defining and remarkable performance of his distinguished career. I've seen the film countless times and couldn't ...

Virtual Light

68 reviews
William Gibson

Spectra, 1994

Great stuff....One of those very "possible futures"....
.....peopled with interesting characters. Not as grim as the "Sprawl Trilogy" (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive), not light reading, necessarily, but with a little more hope involved. Berry Rydell seems like a loser at first, but he's actually a potential "hero" in the Gary Cooper sense....the problem is, that little extra luck he needs is never there....so far. He goes for ...

Idoru

140 reviews
William Gibson

Berkley Trade, 2003

for jaded futurists in search of "that physical thing"
There is an odd surface tension here; some readers may approach Idoru from the wrong bias, through the lens of Neuromancer and the Sprawl trilogy. Those readers will expect the traditional cyberpunk romp of amphetamine-fueled Yakuza battles and twisted violent sex in coffin hotels; those readers will be disappointed and may not be able to penetrate the skin of this charged, deeply emotional book. ...

The Patriot

818 reviews

Perhaps Heath' best movie
The Patriot DVD Mel Gibson is a pacifist who live in South Carolina circa 1776. His pacifism was caused by the violence he saw during the French and Indian War that he fought in. Heath Ledger plays his almost grown son. Highly recommended for fans of the American Revolutionary war, Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger. Gunner April, 2008

Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)

149 reviews
William Shakespeare

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Very Useful if you know what you're looking for
As a college student who had to write a paper on Hamlet,Again,I of course had to get away from any classic ideas about the play. Being a student with a talent for writing I would never be able to "get away with," these common theories, as professor's expect much more. This book really helped me to create a rather ambitious and interesting thesis; one which went against the criticisms in the ...

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