GIBSON FINALLY FINDS HIS STRIDE AGAIN

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	• Spook Country William Gibson G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 151 reviews view larger image
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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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Spook Country

Very good book aiken to Gibson's other work. The multiple plot lines seem to come together too quickly in the end, but that is my only complaint.

Enjoy

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GIBSON FINALLY FINDS HIS STRIDE AGAIN

I am a huge William Gibson fun, since my university years. I believe his SPRAWL Trilogy to be a strong English Literature Cannon candidate - and, undoubtedly, the Gospel of Science Fiction of our generation.

His next trilogy, however, (Virtual Light, Idoru & All Tomorrow's Parties) took an abrupt downturn after the first book of the series. I will not go into the reasons I did not find them to work at par with his previous monumental works; after all, this is not their review.

So, I was pleasantly surprised when my loyalty (finally...) paid off! SPOOK COUNTRY is a BEAUTIFUL book!

If one is hoping to find a fast-paced SF techno-thriller or a page-turner gore-fest, well, this is not the book to pick. Try Richard Morgan instead.
Even since his more action-conscious Neuromancer, William Gibson had always been a subtle writer; his poetic words painting a stroke here and then a stroke there - until his reductionist prose reveals a magic vista of the human condition no one has put to words before.

Be patient with his books. Short chapters, phrasal fragments, unusual word-hacking and turning brand-names into verbs have always been his functional style. And, boy, does his style function!
Long after you will have finished the last page, the imagery will stay with you. Popping up unexpectantly, in the foam of your next Frappuchino; in your car GPS voice; in the site of a spyhopping orca.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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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.

Least Timeless, Best Written

In a nutshell, Gibson uses very topical references to strongly tie a sense of "time-place" to this book. As a fan, this is fairly significant...other books, reaching back to Neuromancer, indicate some semi-far-off future. This one is planted firmly in the here-and-now. For me, Gibson being fixed in time somehow takes the waking-dream aspect out of his writing.
That being said, it flows far better than anything written to date. As I remarked to a friend the other day: "I'm not sure if Gibson had a change-up in his style due to different content, or if his 'unique writing style' of the past could simply be an indication of someone who had trouble stringing multiple intriguing plotlines together." An excellent read, though I don't know if I'll wear out three copies of this one the way I did burning chrome / neuromancer / count zero.
One last note: If you enjoyed Pattern Recognition (which I did quite a bit), you'll definitely enjoy this.

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