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	• Spook Country William Gibson G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 141 reviews view larger image
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Definitely Not Gibson's Best

I appreciated the fact that the seting is contemporary. Unfortunately that does not make up for the fact that it's just not much of a story.

Gibson at His Best

A sequel to "Pattern Recognition" and a more than worthy successor. I can hardly wait for the third book of Gibson's latest trilogy!

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An Enjoyable Read

Spook Country

If you haven't read William Gibson before this is the not what I recommend you start with. I don't think its his best work to date.

I think Pattern Recognition is one of his best, most accesable books set in the current period so far.

I do appreciate his attemps to put his vision and writing style on current day events. And even though I didn't enjoy this book as thoroughly as some of this others, I'll still keep reading anything he puts out because of his captivating writing style and point of view I just don't get anywhere else.

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Gibson just keeps getting better and better!

I was quite surprised to see the low average rating of this book, given how much I enjoyed it.

As Gibson matures, he is moving away from his cyberpunk roots, but applying the same startlingly clear ability to represent the core of an era, be it 2027 or 2007. For me, "Pattern Recognition" was a major step up in the quality of Gibson's writing; where the "Neuromancer" series had moments of pure poetry, "Pattern Recognition" is made of superior stuff. "Spook Country" is even better in terms of the richness of language and the vividness of the characters and scenes that Gibson displays.

Few people can build a literary world as convincingly as Gibson (Neal Stephenson being one of said few), and I think that "Spook Country", which continues in the "Pattern Recognition" world, is another fantastic creation. "Pattern Recognition" focused on the power of media in the modern world, and "Spook Country" focuses on another aspect: intergovernmental struggles to assert a particular worldview. I cannot wait for Gibson's next novel to see what will be examined under his keen literary microscope.

People who expect cyberpunk from this book will be disappointed, but open-minded readers should find plenty to savour.

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Hmmm... yes, ok.

I read some of the reviews in here and just can't get my head around the fact that it's apparently not clear that this book is not Sci-Fi. People say the book is "dated" from the get go and contains "old tech" like, uh, GPS location devices? Hell yeah, surprise it's set in 2006, fer god's sake. Anyone who wishes to see a rerun of Neuromancer (a book written >20 years ago, which makes it contemporaneous with Jules Verne's "20'000 leagues", basically) is advised to scuttle forthwith to other authors (Charles Stross maybe?) I don't suspect Gibson will return to the genre either (but what do I know). Now this book, (John le Carré, reloaded?) is something that a future archeologist might find of use when writing a paper on the subconscious of Western Civilization of the early 21st, a subconscious aware that things are no longer Right, and that the system, having accumulated byzantine baggage and too many errors, might soon veer into decidedly interesting directions. Maybe we should all drop Rize and reflect calmly on past heresies. The story? Well, it's the usual Gibson stuff; so we have a Heist going, we have Art Objects pulling things along (we had those since Mona Lisa Overdrive, right?), we have an interesting set of Santeria deities (not necessarily of and in objective reality), we have synchronicity, a whole lot of product re/placement and artifact examination (the utterly mundane may have a story to tell, like a pay phone in a David Lynch movie), we have protagonists mainly occupied with their indecision, uncertain knowledge and fleeting visions of bigger fish. You can look the rest up in Cyberspace, I mean Wikipedia. Does it hold water? Yes, I actually wanted to know whether the Heist could be pulled off or would fail due to some freak accident. Good enough. Still, some threads may need trimming (what's with the Hook?!), additional noir could be injected, the end could be better (but Gibson and Ends do not meet well). 3.5 stars? Let's give 4.

Random thought: Gibson's next novel surely will be about artful arrangements of pieces of the Apollo 11 lunar lander inexplicably turning up in Swiss bank vaults rented by recently disappeared Russian mobsters, which leads to dark hints about the inner workings of the USUK total surveillance societies.

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