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September 10, 2007
Spook Country
Got Gibson's latest - Spook Country from the library a week or so back, finished it on the ferry home today.
It wasn't a bad book, but it feels like a stretch to call it a good one - it really didn't have enough meat, in my opinion, to justify being a "full" novel. Conspicuously missing was the "texture" I've come to associate with Gibson's writing. There were lots of characters, but few of them were more than paper thin, and the book sprawled across several locales, yet failed to give me the sense of being in any of them. There were several levels of plot going on, but none aside from the "main" one really kept my interest.
I pretty much agree with the current Amazon ranking of 3/5 stars.
But who knows, I've been pretty distracted lately by the "are-we-moving-or-are-we-not" dance, so maybe it's me.
Posted by dberger at September 10, 2007 7:10 PM