Spook Country
Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to.
Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms.
Bobby Chombo is a "producer," and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.
Pattern Recognition was a bestseller on every list of every major newspaper in the country, reaching #4 on the New York Times list. It was also a BookSense top ten pick, a WordStock bestseller, a best book of the year for Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Economist, and a Washington Post "rave."
Spook Country is the perfect follow-up to Pattern Recognition, which was called by The Washington Post (among many glowing reviews), "One of the first authentic and vital novels of the twenty-first century."
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133 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 05, 2008 Type: User Review |
less than the sum of its parts
I've loved Gibson from the start, but without a doubt, by "Pattern Matching" his prose had risen to remarkable.
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Gibson does it again
William Gibson's sequels are, unlike most writers, often better than the original (and always better than those other guys). This is no exception. He creates a fully-realized world, sucks you into it, and spits you out with more alternative...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
The Literature of the Digital Age
Spook Country is a compelling book in which the writing is the main attraction of the book even more so than the end. Each line in the book represents an innovative way of describing situations, characters or feelings more than the plot of an...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Mystery? A Political Commentary?
I'm not sure why some of the negative reviewers of this book were upset about. I agree that this is not as gripping as some of Gibson's other works, but some of the complaints seem to be that he is not sticking to his past themes. I think a writer...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
Very disappointing effort
Disclaimer: I can not give a complete review as I could not finish the book. I got through about 1/3 of the book before I did not want to waste anymore time on it.
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 19, 2008 Type: User Review |
disappointing compared to his other work
I suppose I was expecting another one similar to pattern recognition, which this was not. I also had very little interest in the whole geocoding thing, which he seemed to think was so cool, esp. since I make maps. It just didn't grab me in the...
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2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 13, 2008 Type: User Review |
A neoclassic spy-detective work of art
This novel is another great piece of work by one of the truly most gifted and innovative authors writing in English for the past 25 years. Gibson's sparse, poetic style always leaves much for the reader's intelligence to fill in, consistently...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Don't bother....
I've loved Gibson's works in the past, but this one almost felt like the result of a contract fulfillment... no real sense of pace, a storyline that dragged like it wasn't really pointed in any direction - because it wasn't - characters you...
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
this is not one of Gibsons better books
Maybe I remember 'Neuromancer' with a nostalgic light that is not quite true. That book of Gibson's is looked back upon not for its writing style, but for its ideas and the jargon that was added to our current lexicon. But in my mind, Neuromancer...
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2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 25, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Dated Failure
Oh, where has Gibson's talent gone? From the magnesium flare of the brilliance of Neuromancer to this spluttering candle of disjointed memes and Bush-Derangement-Syndrome.
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