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Summary: Meandering
Review: The book is a fairly compelling page-turner, but when I finished it I didn't feel a sense of loss, I wasn't enlightened or inspired, etc. I was just like, "Hmm. Okay. So what?"It was nice to see old characters which we had warmed to in previous books and see how they were doing, and getting them re-united at a nodal point of civilization. And of course the book's context of a civ's nodal point allows for no proof of its existence. But I guess it might be nice to deal with in a future book WRT time-travel.
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Summary: All Tomorrow's Parties
Review: As a new reader to Gibson's work, I found "All tomorrow's parties" to be quite intriguing. It portrays possible future developements in a soceity that is constantly changing due to advances in technology. Having to read this as a school assignment for my AP Literature class, I deeply enjoyed this book. Gibson is vivid in his visceral detail and coherent in his plot. This novel explores all the possibilites that we as United States citizens face everyday in a technologically dominated world. The only two downsides to this novel was its complexity to readers who haven't read any of his work, and that soon this novel may become a reality and be left in the past and be surpased by other advances. Overall this novel was great and I would encourage anyone to read it.
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Summary: not the golden gate bridge
Review: I liked this book. And maybe this is a small point. But I read it while visiting San Francsisco for the first time. The bridge on the cover is, of course, the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge in the book is never named, but it's clearly the Bay Bridge. Maybe a small point, but ...
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Summary: A Final Thought
Review: All Tomorrow's Parties brings a long awaited sense of conclusion to the previous two novels. Relying heavily on characters from the first two novels, the third novel expands on these chracters and bring conclusions to many of the previous plot lines. A great read if you have read Virtual Light and Idoru.
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Summary: Great Prose, Middling Plot
Review: Gibson puts out some of his best writing since Neuromancer from a stylistic sense. Unfortunately, the plot is one of his weakest yet. Most of the charactures are recycled from the previous two books, with 3 notable exceptions. Of the three, two are underdeveloped, and the third lends nothing to the story, and is in fact quite annoying. Gibson's skills and some hope of further development of abovesaid charactures kept me going. If you're a Gibson fan, it's definitely worth the read. If you're not, wait till it comes out in paperback.
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Summary: Well, I wish I liked it more
Review: I usually like William Gibsons' work but this I found lacking in a big way. Only one or two characters were interesting and I could easily figure out the end. It was not what I would call his best work by ANY means.
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Summary: Not the best
Review: I've come to expect no resolution. I've come to expect marginal endings. As long as there is some body to the story and some interesting characters. And that's what you get.
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Summary: gibson interviewed at crankydog.com
Review: William Gibson is one of the most Literary (with a capital L)authors working in the genre... but without being overly "artistic", self-indulgent or hermetic like a Sam Delaney (which is really just self-congratulatory i'm-a-better-artist-than-you-can-understand spew). This is the kind of writing that can cross-over if given a chance ... every bit as good as Pete Dexter or Martha Grimes. The book does suffer from a lack of tidy resolution, but the narrative really isn't about resolution. Certainly should be acquainted with Gibson's universe to be at ease this one.
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Summary: At the edge
Review: Gibson at his classic best. A fully imagined world, completely credibly in texture, even if some of the technological leaps were hard to swallow. The ending, while seemingly ambiguous, is satisfying because you have a sense of the change ahead. And, especially worthwhile, the ending features a visual image as clever and wierd as they come. His prose borders on the literate, some of his characters border on the cartoon, and the plot carries you along, entertainingly. A great vacation read.
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Summary: The Problems With Predicting the Future
Review: It's going to be hard to "focus my comments on the book's content" after reading 10 or 12 of the other reviews. I guess Wells had detractors because his predictions seemed so fanciful at the time. Now in the Information Age, your detractors scour the net and the local magazine rack to make sure you haven't maybe picked up an idea thats already been around for a couple of nanoseconds. Can you imagine reviewers doing this to Clarke or Asimov? And Gibson clearly has a place in their company. Besides simply foretelling the future in Neuromancer, he started a whole new genre of speculative fiction. This book, while certainly not as ground breaking as triple award winning Neuromancer, continues the style and savvy of Hugo nominated Virtual Light. It's good to see Rydell and Chevette again and I truly enjoyed those times at the Lucky Dragon (the convenience store of the future). Read this book; it's fun.
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