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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1301810" data-attributes="member: 812">Couldn't finish it.I'm not sure about Gibson. Has it been all downhill since Neuromancer? I used to like Count Zero best of all, but I haven't read it in years and can't find a copy anywhere so I don't know.I welcomed the campiness of Pattern Recognition and once I got that, I was looking forward to something uncharacteristically humourous -- but instead I got less and less engaged as the story went on.His characters never seem to care very much about anything -- in worked in Neuromancer because working against Case (the uncaring one) you had Molly's passion and Armitage's sheer craziness (not to mention Riveria's evil ugliness) -- Case was the &quot;normal&quot; one we could identify with. But nowadays it seems like all his books are people with versions of Case -- disconnected people without close relationships to others or even to their surroundings. People who just don't seem to care about much of anything.Which I know is part of what Gibson's trying to talk about but surely meaningful art has to get to the passions that drive us in order to have something interesting to say about the human condition.Or maybe I just like stories with more sex and violence. <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" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1301810, member: 812"] Couldn't finish it. I'm not sure about Gibson. Has it been all downhill since [i]Neuromancer[/i]? I used to like [i]Count Zero[/i] best of all, but I haven't read it in years and can't find a copy anywhere so I don't know. I welcomed the campiness of [i]Pattern Recognition[/i] and once I got that, I was looking forward to something uncharacteristically humourous -- but instead I got less and less engaged as the story went on. His characters never seem to care very much about anything -- in worked in [i]Neuromancer[/i] because working against Case (the uncaring one) you had Molly's passion and Armitage's sheer craziness (not to mention Riveria's evil ugliness) -- Case was the "normal" one we could identify with. But nowadays it seems like all his books are people with versions of Case -- disconnected people without close relationships to others or even to their surroundings. People who just don't seem to care about much of anything. Which I know is part of what Gibson's trying to talk about but surely meaningful art has to get to the passions that drive us in order to have something interesting to say about the human condition. Or maybe I just like stories with more sex and violence. :D [/QUOTE]

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