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Count Zero

Count Zero

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Prophecy?
Review: This book takes a strange and violent look into the future. Some of the tech talk is confusing but you pick up on it really fast. The story itself is equally distributed between 3 characters, you know who the next chapter will focus on. It is a pretty quick read and poses alot of theological questions.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: what can I say!?
Review: This book was dark and deep, as if Gibson wrote this book in a sewer or something, which gives it a cool atmosphere. what else can I say except that the book kicks the crap out of anything except neil stephenson... and even that got a kick in the 'nads.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: great energetic, engrossing readin!
Review: This book, like Neuromancer begins at mach 5 and does not stop. Its poetic, sensual and should be read by all science fiction fans. A shear delight. I cant wait to read Mona Lisa Overdirve.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: On par with Neuromancer
Review: This book, the second of Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy, is a high speed tale of people living in a dark future. Gibson makes interesting characters and fascinating locales come to life in this novel. As a follow up to the ground-breaking Neuromancer, I say Count zero is right on par with it's predecessor.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dull Dull Dull
Review: This is a very poorly written book. The characters are one dimensional, predictable and uninteresting. The plot is slow, dim witted and mundane. All in all a waste of paper. Very poor and generally disappointing.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great writing, bad medium
Review: This is my second Gibson novel behind Neuromancer, and I'm just as impressed as I was with the first. Excellent writing, although the fragmented sentences do get annoying. Nonetheless, I'm always taken by his mastery of the language, and how well Gibson can take you away to another world.

My one problem lies with the publisher, Ace Books out of New York. The paperback I purchased was falling apart withing a few days, and pages detaching by the time I was through reading. I will never purchase a book in their name again.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Gibson
Review: three superb stories through the book all merge into one great cyberpunk fantasy. Gibsons five minutes into the future world is completley beleivable, full of rich characters, with a scary ability of you making you think "is this how its going to be". True Gibson quality.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gibson rules
Review: What a book! William Gibson writes about an artificial intelligence which expresses itself by building Joseph Cornell boxes! Read about Joseph Cornell first (and look at some of his boxes... try MOMA, or search Amazon), then read this book! Wow.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Gibson does it again
Review: William Gibson does an excellent job in this installment of his Sprawl series. He carefully weaves threads of Neuromancer into this novel without taking anything away from the story of Count Zero. Gibson did an exceptional job at creating an original story while at the same time bringing back some of the favorite quirks. Such as the Hosaka decks and the various cowboys roaming the matrix.
Gibson's ability to construct three seemingly completely different story lines into one novel and then wonderfully bringing them together in the end is outstanding. One immediately gets drawn into the lives of each of the characters simpathizing instantaneously with thier plights. The diversity with which each of his characters is faced makes for nonstop action throughout the book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Cyberspace adventures in the near future w/strong characters
Review: William Gibson's imagination as well as his considerable talent make the characters in this page burner seem alive. It will take you through a wide range of emotions as his characters scream through the world, both cyber & real, at breakneck speed. The storyline and the glimpse of the near future are frighteningly plausible.


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