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<blockquote data-quote="reddist" data-source="post: 1300425" data-attributes="member: 5212">I am normally a huge Gibson fan.&nbsp; I bought this based on my experiences with some of his other stuff.&nbsp; That said, I did not find this to be similar to anything of Gibson's I've read before.It took me a bit to get into it, but I did stick to it and see it through.&nbsp; The most annoying thing about it for me was the bizzare use of present tense.&nbsp; It shocked my &quot;text-to-image&quot; machinery every three or for paragraphs and I kept falling out of the narrative, so it became less a pleasant read and more an exercize in maintaining enough fortitude to get back into it.One thing I love about Gibson's books is his attention to detail, even in the way he rattles off brand names of future companies and their products and expects us to know what he's talking about.&nbsp; For me, it helps a near-future world that lives and breaths, even more so when so many of these details are consistent with other stories set in that same near-future.So overall, while the writing style Gibson was experimenting with in Pattern Recognition didn't thrill me, I was driven enough to follow the story to the end.&nbsp; It did seem a bit anticlimactic, I was hoping for something more edgy about the source of the footage.&nbsp; And the online communities Cayce was a part of didn't sound familiar at all, nope.-Reddist</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reddist, post: 1300425, member: 5212"] I am normally a huge Gibson fan. I bought this based on my experiences with some of his other stuff. That said, I did not find this to be similar to anything of Gibson's I've read before. It took me a bit to get into it, but I did stick to it and see it through. The most annoying thing about it for me was the bizzare use of present tense. It shocked my "text-to-image" machinery every three or for paragraphs and I kept falling out of the narrative, so it became less a pleasant read and more an exercize in maintaining enough fortitude to get back into it. One thing I love about Gibson's books is his attention to detail, even in the way he rattles off brand names of future companies and their products and expects us to know what he's talking about. For me, it helps a near-future world that lives and breaths, even more so when so many of these details are consistent with other stories set in that same near-future. So overall, while the writing style Gibson was experimenting with in [i]Pattern Recognition[/i] didn't thrill me, I was driven enough to follow the story to the end. It did seem a bit anticlimactic, I was hoping for something more edgy about the source of the footage. And the online communities Cayce was a part of didn't sound familiar at all, nope. -Reddist [/QUOTE]

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