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stanton · Post by **stanton** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:08 am

boomnoise wrote:the new gibson - spook country is currently smacking me around the face. gibson's prose is getting better and better; this even tops pr.

You reckon? I enjoyed Pattern Recognition but felt it lacked the complexity of the bridge trilogy, the assemblage theory stuff in there was intense. I reckon his writing style is getting worse though. All tomorrow parties was a mess stylisticly. I can't wait to get me mits on Spook country though...

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:14 am

Stated this last night...

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:26 am

I am currently reading a book on Feminist Aesthetics and Deleuze's Cinema 1 & 2, and dipping in and out of A Thousand Plateus.

escapee planes · Post by **escapee planes** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:58 am

Atonement, by Ian McEwan (there's a film coming out soon with Keira Knightley)

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:00 pm

Read Saturday by McEwan fairly recently, thought it was wicked looking forward to reading that one ^.

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:25 pm

stanton wrote:
boomnoise wrote:the new gibson - spook country is currently smacking me around the face. gibson's prose is getting better and better; this even tops pr.
You reckon? I enjoyed Pattern Recognition but felt it lacked the complexity of the bridge trilogy, the assemblage theory stuff in there was intense. I reckon his writing style is getting worse though. All tomorrow parties was a mess stylisticly. I can't wait to get me mits on Spook country though...

@ Stanton well, PR was a stylistic departure for WG but one i thoroughly enjoyed. i do maintain that his prose style is getting more refined. perhaps less beefy and weighted with concept but that doesn't always for a good book make. the consensus at the moment seems to be that a lot of people are enjoying SC a lot less than PR. Let me know what you're saying when you check it out.

As for dipping in and out of ATP (Delueze's not Gibson's) - is there another way?!

@ LEQ - i found Jpod to be a bit disappointing. Coupland's most self-indulgant novel yet. Your thoughts later would be appreciated.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:33 pm

^ Will let you know Mr Boomnoise

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:43 pm

boomnoise wrote:
@ Stanton well, PR was a stylistic departure for WG but one i thoroughly enjoyed. i do maintain that his prose style is getting more refined. perhaps less beefy and weighted with concept but that doesn't always for a good book make. the consensus at the moment seems to be that a lot of people are enjoying SC a lot less than PR. Let me know what you're saying when you check it out.

As for dipping in and out of ATP (Delueze's not Gibson's) - is there another way?!

I reckon some of the plateaus have to be tackled pretty head on, otherwise they never make sense, but on the whole you're right yeah. Thats the way it was supposed to be read anyhoo!

When I was working at Glassworks we used to get William Gibson calling up for Chris Cunningham about Neuromancer when he was staying in London. I answered the phone a few times and to be honest it's the only time i've ever been star struck. He's got a really silly voice too.

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:53 pm

stanton wrote:When I was working at Glassworks we used to get William Gibson calling up for Chris Cunningham about Neuromancer when he was staying in London. I answered the phone a few times and to be honest it's the only time i've ever been star struck. He's got a really silly voice too.

it's a shame that's not happening really isn't it.

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:07 am

boomnoise wrote:
stanton wrote:When I was working at Glassworks we used to get William Gibson calling up for Chris Cunningham about Neuromancer when he was staying in London. I answered the phone a few times and to be honest it's the only time i've ever been star struck. He's got a really silly voice too.
it's a shame that's not happening really isn't it.

Yeah, he lost Chris's script. Although I remember Chris saying that Neuromancer would be hard to make after the Matrix. It's a real shame he's not making Ran Xerox, though how he'd have got a film about a Cyborg made from photocopier parts with a permanent errection who hangs around with a 12 year old smack addicted prostitute past the censors I don't know. We can but dream.

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:25 am

Totally loved Neuromancer, thoght it was an interesting novel.

Currently reading, " Catch 22 " tough book to read, jsut finished, "American Psycho" now one of my all time favourite novels....

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:04 am

frebentos wrote:Totally loved Neuromancer, thoght it was an interesting novel.

Currently reading, " Catch 22 " tough book to read, jsut finished, "American Psycho" now one of my all time favourite novels....

Catch 22 is jolly good, at some point you really get all the characters and it becomes a much more plesant read.

I quite liked Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, but his later stuff is way better. Virtual light is aces. Also, Burning Chrome (his short stories) is wicked. The Winter Market is one of his best stories I reckon.

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:16 am

stanton wrote:
Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy.. Virtual light is aces... Burning Chrome... The Winter Market is one of his best stories I reckon.

will check out all of these....

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:34 am

Catch 22 is jolly good, at some point you really get all the characters and it becomes a much more plesant read.

My dad never read Catch 22 because of the opening sentence (which is something like "Yossarian fell in love with the chaplain the first time he clapped eyes on him"), thinking it was a book about "bloody queers". I eventually convinced him to read it though, quality book.

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:40 pm

frebentos wrote:
stanton wrote:
Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy.. Virtual light is aces... Burning Chrome... The Winter Market is one of his best stories I reckon.
will check out all of these....

The Winter Market is one of the stories in Burning Chrome. Top smart it is.

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:47 pm

i'm reading "How mumbo jumbo conquered the world" by francis wheen.

It's quite funny

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:21 pm

i finally finished reading Ian Banks' 'Wasp Factory' during a strange acid trip at glade festival, realising that my lack of closure was causing a deep feeling of unrest within me (this was at 8 or 9 in the morning) and i think it helped. I won't give away the ending but for those who've read it, i hope you agree that it's an incredibly positive conclusion.

finally reading 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' by Ken Kesey too, almost finished it, and i must admit it's one of the best books i've ever read. Can anyone recommend any other good books by him, or his peers? 'On the Road' was fun but Kerouac's stuff for the most part hasn't grabbed me.

ozols man · Post by **ozols man** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:54 pm

i am currently reading "last night a dj saved my life" B2B "the electric kool aid acid test"

i cant really concentrate on just one book at a time u see

badger · Post by **badger** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:42 pm

just finished 'slaughterhouse 5' by kurt vonnegut. really odd book but really enjoyed it. dunno what im gonna read next, might return to my inner geek and read a graphic novel

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:26 pm

To all on here who were interested in William Gibson (and who live in london)...

http://www.sci-fi-london.com/news/article/1183989120/8

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