Spook Country
 

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by William Gibson

Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.

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... (read more)

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  • ericroku

    ericroku said:

    I found the beginning really slow, but that last 2/3rds of the book were extremely interesting and flew by. The only problem I has was that the ending was abrupt and seemed as if it it was intentionally left open, possibly for a followup? It was a bit disappointing..

    posted Thursday, February 7 2008
  • feralstrumpet

    feralstrumpet said:

    I have read all of Gibson's SF, as well as Pattern Recognition, and every book has amazed me save this one. I found it hard to finish, and the incessant branding of everything was distracting and felt fetishistic and habitual in the writing rather than subversive and knowing like in Pattern Recognition.

    I was most intrigued by Milgrim's story which seemed to me more like a short story stretched out over the course of the novel. The moments of narration closest to him when he is on Rize are the most transcendant parts of the book.

    But on the whole I found that I didn't really care about what was going on. I wanted to be seduced by something-- be it a plot or an idea or a place and I was just left cold by it all.

    posted Monday, October 15 2007
  • djmikey

    djmikey said:

    damn fine read was totally satisfied. gibson never lets me down.

    posted Sunday, September 9 2007
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