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<blockquote data-quote="Dacileva" data-source="post: 1297624" data-attributes="member: 12957">I had a similar reaction to nHammer.&nbsp; I'm a huge William Gibson fan, and have read all of his books that I know about.&nbsp; That said, I'm also usually very forgiving about books.&nbsp; For instance, I actually liked many of the Dragonlance books.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I found Pattern Recognition had a &quot;half-finished&quot; feel to it.&nbsp; The first portion was densely packed with information, story, and the beginnings of characters (several of whom didn't get the attention they deserved: Voytek and Parkaboy, especially)...&nbsp; And then it slowed down, petered out, and had an ultimately expositive ending.&nbsp; Purely expositive endings are, IMO, the crutch of the poor writer (from personal experience, which is why I no longer write <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />), which makes me wonder why the hell Gibson, who is already provably an absolutely stellar writer, resorted to an expositive ending.As a comparison, Count Zero also had a somewhat unfinished feel to it, but the ending wasn't expositive, and it felt much more fulfilling, despite the blatantly unfinished aspect to it, and All Tomorrow's Parties felt much more polished, still ended before it should have, but was still very enjoyable in it.&nbsp; It left you wanting more, because you enjoyed the story.&nbsp; Pattern Recognition, as Sam said, left you wanting more because it felt like important parts had just been left out.I rate it a 4/10, and hope Gibson's next is better...&nbsp; All Tomorrow's Parties, while not as good as his prior work, is still miles better than this, and wasn't written/published that long ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dacileva, post: 1297624, member: 12957"] I had a similar reaction to nHammer. I'm a huge William Gibson fan, and have read all of his books that I know about. That said, I'm also usually very forgiving about books. For instance, I actually [B]liked[/B] many of the Dragonlance books. :D I found [I]Pattern Recognition[/I] had a "half-finished" feel to it. The first portion was densely packed with information, story, and the beginnings of characters (several of whom didn't get the attention they deserved: Voytek and Parkaboy, especially)... And then it slowed down, petered out, and had an ultimately expositive ending. Purely expositive endings are, IMO, the crutch of the poor writer (from personal experience, which is why I no longer write :o), which makes me wonder why the hell Gibson, who is already [B]provably[/B] an absolutely stellar writer, resorted to an expositive ending. As a comparison, [I]Count Zero[/I] also had a somewhat unfinished feel to it, but the ending wasn't expositive, and it felt much more fulfilling, despite the blatantly unfinished aspect to it, and [I]All Tomorrow's Parties[/I] felt much more polished, still ended before it should have, but was still very enjoyable in it. It left you wanting more, because you enjoyed the story. [I]Pattern Recognition[/I], as Sam said, left you wanting more because it felt like important parts had just been left out. I rate it a 4/10, and hope Gibson's next is better... [I]All Tomorrow's Parties[/I], while not as good as his prior work, is still miles better than this, and wasn't written/published that long ago. [/QUOTE]

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