
I just devoured William Gibson's new book
Pattern Recognition over the weekend.
Gibson is back! The lovely stylist of Neuromancer and Burning Chrome
is back again, with a new brand-oriented Zeitgeist to capture.
He's apparently been to writer school; this new book
doesn't have the story development problems his previous novels have.
I think he read some J.G. Ballard along
the way - echoes of
Crash, particularly
in the emotional distance of the descriptions of the world. Overall a
lovely book, well worth a read.