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the constant gardener - suspense, big pharma, clinical trials abuse.
shooting war graphic novel - media criticism.
pattern recognition ?? media all around us.
zeitgeist - pop culture sendup.
sex, drugs and cocoa puffs rock/pop
that's enough for government work.
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my ... I love Neuromancer It's actually part of a trilogy. Good stuff. Pattern Recognition is also highly recommended. #33 Pattern Recognition
Though the darkened parentheses enveloping me hindered my full appreciation of this severe dark and deep exploration of brand labeling...
err... it sucked. ... Bulgakov
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Winter Queen: A Novel by Boris Akunin ... ... to keep going either. I think Gibson's short stories are much more enjoyable.
I read a relatively recent novel by him - Pattern Recognition. Not amazing, but a decent read and far more palatable, with some interesting ideas about marketing and advertising. ... w/ terrabytes!
I really think Gibson got better and better as he honed his writing skills; though in my opinion pattern recognition was/is brilliant and spook country was a bit of a let down. ... cutting/bleeding edge technology. Speaking of which, one of my favourite William Gibson novels from a few years back, Pattern Recognition, was all about bleeding edge technology, so I approached it with some fear when I went to re-read it a couple of years ago. Much to my delight, he was ... ... is following the protagonist. If you like it, though, I can highly (really, really, extremely highly) recommend Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Spook Country was good, but PR...great. >83 I haven't read Idoru yet, though Gibson is a personal fave (esp. Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition). Your review has moved it up my TBR list. ... but while Neuromancer was v. important in terms of genre history, Gibson defn. steadily improved as a writer - peaking w/ pattern recognition imo. I'll stick w/ Stapledon. ... the slipstream left by Light.
My 'car' book right now is William Gibson, Spook Country. Feels like a regurgitated Pattern Recognition, not bad though.
Looks like I have to read Germs, Guns, and Steel, it's been mentioned 3 times in the last 24 hours, including the review on my ... Here's an arbitrary listing:
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Neuromancer / Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Lolita by Nabokov
Philosophy in the Bedroom by DAF Sade That's one of the nice features of Pattern Recognition - the puzzle is really in the movie mystery and emergent social structures and not the technology as such. I THINK i've read everything Gibson has written (including his very good pieces in the otherwise pretty useless Wired Magazine), and P ... ... someone who is expert in economics.
urania--I haven't read No Logo, so I'm going to search for that one. I did read Pattern Recognition. I had tried to read Gibson before, but he was too technological for an old fogey like me so I abandoned him. I quite liked Pattern Recognition ... ...
>85 Okay, I have to say I found The End of Mr. Y sensational and wonderful. Have you perchance read William Gibson's Pattern Recognition? It deals with some of the same themes.
P.S. I am curious. Where did you think the story was going? And how did you think it would tie up loose ... Pattern Recognition is already in production. Hopefully it will be better than "Swordfish."
Mirrormask was a quality adaptation of Gaiman's work. My own caution with Gaiman is media overexposure. I enjoy his unique visions, but I don't his work being omnipresent and inescapable. Leave ... @10: Hmm, I think Pattern Recognition could work, although it may prove difficult to create a movie as timeless and intriguing as the one in the book.
@11: Guillermo del Toro could do some new weird/weird fantasy perhaps, given his penchant for bizarre creatures. I haven't read any Gaiman, but ... Might not fit exactly in the genre, but Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. The style seems very "10 minutes into the future," full of European coolness, Russian gangsters, and wonderful prose. ... humans, are now free to form their own government. Space Opera with great characters, and an interesting story.
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, Book Group Read
A stand alone about the future and how it is shaped by the cyber revolution. Focuses on marketing, and how ideas, ... ... Singularity Sky etc, I really enjoyed Accelerando last year and just haven't had the time to read these things.
Pattern Recognition -Long overdue to read this.
I'd like to finish my Sturgeon novels -Godbody and Some of Your Blood.
Like to finally get around to The House of Lea ... ... by Robbert Goddard
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich
Mahu Fire by Neil Plakcy
Mahu Surfer by Neil Plakcy
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Pavilion of Women Pearl S. Buck
The Shack by William P. Young
Non-Fiction:
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Ron ... #60: Pattern Recognition
Much, much better.
http://alookatabook.blogspot.com/2008/12/60-of-2008-pattern-recognition-by.html
I've started enjoying science fiction a bit more as of late, but this Gibson novel is more current-events-meets-Internet-geeks than it is any sort of futuristic ... alcottacre:
I think Pattern Recognition and Spook Country are much better than early work such as Count Zero. They also are arguably not science fiction at all, though, so if SF is what you're looking for, they may not be what you want right now. ... : Cory Doctorow
Stories of Your Life : Ted Chiang
Ender's Game : Orson Scott Card
Blindsight : Peter Watts
Pattern Recognition : William Gibson
Snow Crash : Neal Stephenson
White Light : Rudy Rucker
Doomsday Book : Connie Willis
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of ... ... ickinson
6.Deep Wizardry;Diane Duane
7. The Sandman V. 1-10; Neil Gaiman
8.The Calcutta Chromosome; Amitav Ghosh
9.Pattern Recognition; William Gibson
10.Crescent city rhapsody; Kathleen Ann Goonan
11.THE FOREVER WAR; Joe Haldeman
12. Beggars and Choosers Nancy Kress
13. A Wri ... ... there was a big fire where everyone got scattered to the wind and out of the conflict. Not as good as Neuromancer or Pattern Recognition, my two favorites, but pretty damn good :) ... "snobby".
The books that I've seen branding used successfully in are books in which it plays an actual role in the plot - Pattern Recognition, for instance, and So Yesterday, and Peeps, where things being a specific brand is actually important, it's not just an easy way to not be ... ... is figuring out just what he's supposed to be doing.
Not my favorite book in this series, but fun nonetheless.
68. *Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (367)
Technically this was a reread, but I remembered nothing but a few names from the first time I read it. I liked it.
I'll second that--Pattern Recognition is great. But, I didn't even get through Spook Country once; I just didn't care about those people. I loved PR, though. It started me on a bit of a Gibson reading binge.
I am reading Shadow's End right now, which I could have sworn I owned and have ... ... interesting, and worth exploring?
I do like the near-future stuff. I loved Rainbows End, for instance. Also, Pattern Recognition, although I couldn't bring myself to care about Spook Country. I read the short story form of Air by Ryman in a Tiptree Award anthology, and I ... ... that I missed. I haven't read the 'mundane sf' thread yet, I may have to check that out. But, take William Gibson--Pattern Recognition was fantastic, but I just couldn't force myself to read Spook Country. So, I am not feeling so optimistic about near future stuff, either. I can't ... ... places we might like to visit—and the language, if not consistently, then often enough, rises off the page to sing. Pattern Recognition, his last novel, deals with the nether edges of the advertising world; Spook Country introduces us to rogue intelligence agents, some of whom might ... I gave up on Pattern Recognition by William Gibson - this book still males me shudder. It was going nowhere, was vague - and was just horrible :( #110
Pattern Recognition is also very much a thriller. However for me it worked, and worked extremely well. Maybe this was because Cayce was a slightly unreal character and was also feeling a sense of dislocation, of not belonging. A reviewer talks about Gibson creating a vivid hyper-real ... ... one early short story "Forever, Said the Duck", I've disliked them all. I also was disappointed by Spook Country, since Pattern Recognition is one of my favorite books.
I'm a little annoyed at writers who abjure the SF designation (Kurt Vonnegut included). Just write. Don't tell me ... ... Country very un-engrossing - and i generally really like almost everything Gibson's done. He was rehashing his wonderful Pattern Recognition to ill effect. I was glad to see some other folks enjoying Perdido Street Station - every friend i suggested it to who usually share my tastes - put ... ... "slip-stream" to have more of a magical-realist quality. (China Mieville, and so forth).
I'm talking about a book like Pattern Recognition, which has near-zero real science-fictional (...or fantasy, or magical-realism/slipstream...) content, and yet which manages to scratch the itch for "SF" ... (sorry for the accidental double post) ... of "Science fiction", without actually being "science fiction". There are enough of them (Quicksilver, Pattern Recognition, etc.) to constitute a distinct sub-genre, but I can't for the life of me come up with a name for this stuff.) Agreed. Though Pattern Recognition is still one of my all time favorite books, I just barely finished Spook Country and I am involved in new technology art. These characters are BORING. ... hadn't read (because I couldn't find it before). It is an excellent book, as usual. It reminded me of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (both are about advertising and people who see advertising in ways that the rest of us don't).
131. Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce (403)
... ... wasn't in the mood for Gibson, I tried Count Zero next, and I loved that. I really want to like Spook Country--I loved Pattern Recognition, so I know it isn't just the current timeframe. It just seems kind of boring, and frenetic. Lots of his books are frenetic, but this one seems to be ... ... .
Art (sculpture) also feature in Lucifer's dragon, but the actual artist is dead (shows up in reminiscences, though).
Pattern recognition is partly about an on-line art project. ... stories will always win out...
Actually a really brilliant haiku might always win out.
Reminds me of that film in Pattern Recognition, edited down to a single blurry frame of a bird...
Contrary to my earlier anti-length statements, I do enjoy consuming a good long novel now and ... ... with them to imply general writing capability, which is not true, I think.
Spook Country is in some sense lighter than Pattern Recognition. I found it much easier to read than any previous Gibson novel. It's not as good (Pattern gets five stars from me, I just decided), but still a fine ... You either love this sort of thing or you don't, I suppose.
Me, I LOVED Pattern Recognition; I have Spook Country out of the library, and - on the strength of that review - I'll try to move it up in my queue.
Thanks. ... view:
Spook Country by William Gibson
Spook Country is the second book in a trilogy that began with the terrific Pattern Recognition, but the connection is slight and you don't need to have read the first - although you should.
Here the plot is less complex than usual for Gibson. We ... How anyone can be dumb enough to think that Pattern Recognition is far future astounds me. It definitely seemed to be set in the present +/- a year or two when I read it. Firstly it was clearly London of the present day, Secondly there was the 911 attack (with Cayce's father presumed dead in ... ... page: it says "February 2006." He did an interview on our local NPR station, and noted that several reviewers thought that Pattern Recognition was set in the far future, so he wanted to nail it down this time. ... I think I am going to have to pick it up.
About the SF world, I think that Gibson deliberately moved this book and Pattern Recognition into a more current time frame.
Edited to add: I am currently re-reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, and loving it, just like I ... Got Pattern Recognition (William Gibson) through the mail today from Bookmooch So far, I've picked up an ex-library hardcover of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and 20% off David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's The Space Opera Renaissance. So far... ... elements of tradecraft, mostly (but not always) in the context of industrial espionage.
His penultimate release, Pattern Recognition, which I'd recommend, along with the collection, to anyone curious about Gibson, is set in the "present day" and reads more like a contemporary thriller ... #1 - I enjoyed Quicksilver - read the whole cycle twice..., and Pattern recognition was, at least, OK :-)
Have to run to work now, add my TBR later ;-) ... Dean Koontz
Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle 1 by Neal Stephenson
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
I also have the entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King in my stack to reread. What do I tackle first? :)
What do ... My worst book ever was Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
could not figure that book out for a second William Gibson discussed advertising and net.memes in Pattern Recognition, and Charles Stross used, among other things, intellectual property rights and taxation in Accelerando, as well as asking a question that not many transhumanists have: Just because we /can/, does it mean that /it would ... ... by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling - still the best steampunk in the genre - both stand out for me. I also enjoyed Pattern Recognition - also by Gibson
... if only because the main character amused me.
I've also read Virtual Light and its (not-as-good) sequels, plus Pattern Recognition (which I enjoyed, even if it was a bit of a silly plot - viral video? Meh.). I think the worst book I ever tried to read was this bizarre book called Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. I had no idea what the hell this book was talking about. I bought it at the airport and actually tried to return it to the gift shop when I came back from my trip - they wouldn't ...
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