Spook Country Audiobook

" Almost a four star but the separate stories coming together at the end schtick of Gibson just falls short this time and leads to a very disjointed story that scrambles to pull itself together in the final few chapters. "

" Not the quality of nureomancer, but not a bad summer read. "

" William Gibson writes beautifully, and his characters are beautifully quirky and unexpected. In Spook Country we see the further development of Gibson's vision of the human increasingly merging with its technological world. Yet this time it's all side-plot to a story of intrigue and the unraveling of secrets. The framework is classic convergence, in which characters who are seemingly unrelated and living their various personal dramas come together at the climax, which compels and fascinates. While my favorite of his remains Pattern Recognition, Spook Country is a recommended read. "

" Gibson now writes in the present. No need to write about the future any more - we are living in it. I loved the interweaving of stories. The product placement was part of the embroidery - not an annoyance as some have found. I loved the collision of the old cold war spooks and the modern cyber crims. Age will out! "

" Why are Gibson's newest books so hard to penetrate early on? It is as if the opening chapter is designed to weed out the weak, leaving only those who have consumed enough coffee. Fortunately the rest of the book is not bad, though I miss the present tense narratives and future visions Gibson created in his early novels. "

" Not what I expected from Gibson, but not bad. I think its interesting that he uses brands to set up several scenes; definitely the first time I've seen the word "photoshopped" in print. It says a great deal about how we define our world. Well, maybe just New York City [and Los Angeles:], where much of the book takes place. "

" As usual, we're out on the edge of yesterday, seeking next week (and money, power, cute girls..LOL). I love Gibson's books - in two years I'll be buying whatever technology he's writing about today. Idoru was interesting, too. Being a total pervert, I lIKED the concept. LOLOL "

" Now I'm not sure which I want to be - Cayce Pollard (in Pattern Recognition) or Hollis Henry. "

" William Gibson has gotten better and better; still mysterious, but very focused - always an interesting take on the times. "

" A wandering bore of a book. "

" a really good vision of what might be going on now. well (but a little neurotically) written. "

" Ugh- did not like this at all. Gave up after a couple chapters. Felt like it was written by an out-of-touch old guy that had read some articles about "technology" and decided to write a "cool" book about what he learned. Ick. "

" Excellent story. Some of the best characterization he's done, but it took me a while to get into, the story didn't start out as quickly as most of Gibson's work. "

" William Gibson makes me feel smart. I don't understand half of the tech stuff he writes about... but I feel an increasing level of coolness as the book proceeds. Also, he's one of a mere handful of male authors who can really write a fully dimensional female character. "

" Excellent book...cyberpunk superauthor William Gibson goes from writing about a future we can only imagine to one that we feel might already exist. "

" An interesting novel. I've always wanted to read William Gibson and will probably do it again. Maybe a little loose for me. I do want to see what I can find out about locative art. "

" Hey, Gibson's future caught up with him. This was oddly my favorite Gibson book and it is his first not set in the future. "

" Mixed feelings about this one. Certainly a page turner, nice short chapters. Fun having many seemingly separate stories come together. But I'm not sure that all that much actually happened, or something. Not sure I quite see the role all the characters filled. "

" A weird book, it was nice, but sometimes a bit boring maybe. Anyway I like it "

" Enjoyable, but anti-climactic. Sets up a great mystery with interesting characters and world-building, and then falls flat and fails to go anywhere with the potential. "

" Although numerous things are going on, and it is interesting, there is a curious lack of dramatic tension. "

" Well written, but fell a bit short of the future fast-forward spy thriller/dystopian surveillance tale a la Don DeLillo that I was hoping for. In the end it was a muddle of a few interesting ideas, but just didn't coagulate like it should have. "

" Filled with those trademark riverstone-smooth sentences and spiked with a cynicism that can only come from two terms of a Bush presidency it's less science fiction and more a mark and sweep dump of the unevenly distributed future that's already here. It's like a year of boing-boing, with a plot. "

" I suspect Gibson of building a universe backwards, with each successive book prefiguring, chronologically, its predecessors. Hats off to him if he is as it'd be a neat thing to do. "

" well, they can't all be winners. "

" Have not read anything by Gibson that I didn't like. "

" The most exciting part of the book occurs in the middle, which is not completely unexpected with Gibson. "

" Style over substance. Far too much focus on 'cool' stuff like language and ideas and not enough on the bread and butter of good novel making, i.e. characters. "

" Great as usual, love the locative technology aspect of this book. "

" I really like this so far but not as compelling as the first book. "

" well, they can't all be winners. "

" really great book. love all his books though. "