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Mar 16, 2020richmole rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This is my third William Gibson novel. Read his first, years ago (Neuromancer) and recently, the decade-old Pattern Recognition. Loved Neuromancer, quite liked Pattern Recognition. This new one is for somebody. But not for me. I tried everything: re-reading passages that I thought I understood--but did not--tried not to overlook detail that could be important--and failed. Avoided reading when I was tired (even though I didn't know I was THAT tired.) This book is VERY HARD WORK. I certainly appreciate Gibson's take on a possible future, and, as usual, how people act, their various electronic "assists" and their everyday speech patterns. All nifty stuff. Genius writing. But, so much "stuff" that whatever plot's in there gets smothered by it. Did I say it was a very hard work? I did. It was. And in the end--or rather, half-way through--decided that whatever possible pay-off there was at the end just...wasn't worth the effort. YOU, however, might think differently...