From: clickitey@clack.edu   
      
   In article , [Scion] wrote:   
      
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   >   
   > You misinterpreted my post. My problem with PR isn't that Gibson didn't   
   > provide a scintillating story. Honestly, I liked the way he toyed with   
   > his old themes (though it WAS a rehash of the Marly/Virek scenario from   
   > Count Zero), and I found myself laughing aloud at some of the scenes,   
   > because I identified with them very closely ("that is MY life!"),   
   > however...   
   >   
      
   ok.. before i get into the blow by blow..   
      
   theres something very special about the way WG puts together a sentance.   
   not many people can hold my attention at that low a level.. i've read in   
   interviews where he claims to be heavily influenced by William   
   Burroughs.. which i could never really see.. until i looked at it from   
   this perspective.. like Burroughs WG does not need the narrative to get   
   his point home.  the individual sentances themselves have enough going   
   on that they stand on thier own.   
      
   not always.. and not every sentance.. but a lot of them do.  and from   
   what i've seen.. he gets more and more into each book.  thats really   
   what i read him for.. not the plot or the ideas, i have cooler ideas   
   than WG and i sure as hell know more about technology.. but for those   
   individual sentances..   
      
   strung together they may or may not make a decent narrative, i don't   
   know.. i can rarely pull myself far away enough from the text to see it.   
   i had to read neuromancer 3-4 times before i could figure out what was   
   going on.. Pattern Recognition.. i've read it twice now.. and i can only   
   vageuly recall the characters names.   
      
   maybe its just me?  i don't really know.. but this is what i get from   
   him, and this is what i've always been so impressed by.  and i still   
   maintain that he gets more and more of these moments into each sucessive   
   book..   
      
      
   >   
   > Pattern Recognition is a lazy novel from someone who's capable of much   
   > better. It's too immediately accessible, too mainstream. It sounds like a   
   > novel written by someone who's trying to sound like William Gibson. A   
   > fanfic, in other words. I could care less about whether it's "cyberpunk"   
   > or not, but the artistry with which Gibson crafted this novel was of a   
   > significantly lesser caliber than the skill put into, say, Idoru.   
   >   
      
   [was going to try to reply to this.. but i'm out of time.. to post or   
   not to post.. i guess its post, and warn theres more to come]   
      
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