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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441013678
ISBN: 0441013678
Label: Ace Trade
Manufacturer: Ace Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 07, 2006
Publisher: Ace Trade
Sales Rank: 63581
Studio: Ace Trade
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Rating:  - Coasting on successful ideas.
I'm worried that, as I read more Gibson, the man has been making a name on copying a few ideas into his novels while attempting to present them as novel each time. In fact, he merely rewrites the superficial details of the story around those core ideas, which, in his first novel, were of great interest.
Again, we have a world of low-life types populating a world that veers in and out of the artificial matrix and the more "real." We have characters within who can't distinguish between ... Read More
Rating:  - Brilliant mindscapes, a cornucopia of scenes and characters.
Count Zero is one of three novels that set Gibson a world apart from most of us authors. He is one man whose praise I am happy to sing. Reading this novel and some of his other works got me through more than five years of suicidal depression due to a failing marriage. Ironically, the tone of these novels is often less than happy, and certainly far from perfect, as in this... life is largely risk and disappointment, met with occasional moments of glory.
The angst, hopelessness, humor, and ... Read More
Rating: - On receiving an interrupt, decrement the count to zero.
If you loved Neuromancer, you'll love Count Zero. Great read.
Check it out.
Rating: - More action
Gibson ramps up the action in the second of the Sprawl Trilogy books. Case and Molly are nowhere to be seen, but that's okay.
Rating: - Cyberpunk sweetness
First 25%, get your bearings on the story threads. A lot going on here- people, places, virtual reality, reality, etc. Had to be patient to put the new information into my folder called, "Sweet."
Middle 50%, feel out the people, plot and possibilities. Stacks of circumstances pile up. I ask myself if and when it will topple. Stacks weave, twist and waver until they form a wonderful skyscraper.
And the last 75% watch your expectations unravel into a tapestry of switchbacks and ... Read More
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