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	• Spook Country William Gibson Berkley Trade, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 148 reviews view larger image
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Perfect technique

Great book.

Slow, but I think that's because slow is the way the spy game has to work.

If the slow had been about a single person, it would have dragged. Since the slow was set in the context of a family of spies - past, present, and future, it was understandable, and made the book work. It felt a lot like "Smiley's People."

WG rarely disapoints. Though, I will have to re-read Pattern Recognition, which I found boring at the time.

IMHO, Orson Scott Card should learn from this book.

Disjointed Read

If you're looking for a great follow up to _Pattern Recognition_ do not read this book. This book doesn't flow seamlessly through the stories or main vignettes. It feels choppy and disconnected.

I finished the book out of sheer hope that it would get better and it just never happened. I've read all of his books and must say that this one was the weakest.

Others have outlined the plot, so I won't repeat.

Now to positive points, I think that Gibson writes his women characters well. He gets in their minds and the way he explains things in their voices resonates as truthful or at the very least an accurate depiction.

He is also particularly gifted at setting up the theme or stage within the story----he does his research when describing locations in the locative art or in places where the characters are. Good research.

I will continue to read his work, but reading this book felt like work.

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anticlimactic

Gibson is a great writer and he establishes a vaguely unsettling vibe which is intriguing, and continues to have his finger on the pulse of technological innovations and how they affect culture. It started slowly but soon enough I was devouring the pages. The premise and happenings of the book were very interesting.

The ending was so thouroughly unexciting, though, that it kind of ruined the book. There was no payoff, it was as though everything that had happened amounted to nothing. Which maybe was the point I suppose, but I was hoping for more of an exciting thriller style ending.

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