Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
// March 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // books, reading, review
Pattern Recognition
This is the first Gibson that I have read. And I like it.
Pattern Recognition is not exactly traditional sci-fi. Its does not have space travel and it does not have nano bots. There are obscure internet boards and movie fanatics. The interleaved life of a video nut and an a logo-agnostic aesthete who is ironically allergic to her day job. There is a certain charm and credibility in her psychosomatic character. Its a curious mystery this media junkie picks up at a high-end brand consulting job. The quest is to go around the world hoping to find an artist who no one knows. The American and west European corporate elite, Japanese nerds and Russian mafia – its got it all with lucid descriptions that you can picture the Grey streets of London evening, the neon night of red light Tokyo and crisp morning of Moscow. There seems to be a shadowy big brother always lurking. One keeps guessing if any of the events are coincidental or orchestrated. Its a light, engaging read.
