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Pattern Recognition

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Bronwen Price
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Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'.

Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself.

William Gibson's audiobook is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world and life in (the former) USSR.

©2004 William Gibson (P)2021 W F Howes Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Technology England Suspense
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It starts out very “normal”: a normal character with a normal life. “Not much going on here,” you’ll think to yourself. Then one strange detail after another creeps in, gradually accumulating until, before you know it, it’s a bizarre, intriguing, quirky, international adventure where nothing is what you expect. This was a very enjoyable immersive & fun novel. Leave your expectations at home, it’s not Neuromancer. You also won’t find any cliches here, so don’t expect any.

A tightly woven, detailed and quirky adventure that creeps up on you and leaves you wanting more

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No cyberpunks, no character development, no plot, no climax, no substantial ending. On the plus side, it's hard to tell how bad the novel is when the reader makes such a mess of it.

Wasn't even sure I finished it

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