An excellent start, a disappointing ending

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	• Spook Country William Gibson Berkley Trade, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 149 reviews view larger image
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An excellent start, a disappointing ending

The start of the book was as granular and tightly written as the best parts of Pattern Recognition. Unfortunately the denoument leaves much to be desired. A big build up to a damp squib. Shame.

Couldn't put it down

While not as groundbreaking as "Pattern Recognition", "Spook Country" is an intriguing thriller with cool characters. What Gibson does best in this book is capture the unsettling, paranoid Post 9/11 world with dry black humor.

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The Times Are Grim, Milgrim In Fact

Another excellent story from Mr Gibson in his now-is-the-future series that started with Pattern Recognition. I found this novel not only as good as PR, but in some areas better (the ending in particular is much better than the rather disappointing ending of PR). This is a post-9/11 story that needed more time to have passed for it to be told, and I found Hollis Henry, Milgrim, etc. to be at least as involving and interesting as the previous book's inhabitants. Bigend and Blue Ant once again indicate mysterious forces at work on the larger scale and I suspect we'll see them in a third volume. Gibson does seem to do things in threes.

I hope that one day the author will see a way to take us to another future as interesting as his pre-PR worlds, but I'm not disappointed with the present day he's showing us at the moment. Perhaps he can see a possible end to the cold civil war from his crows nest, I wish I could.

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