473 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2003 by RB large print.

ISBN:
978-1-4025-5690-6
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OCLC Number:
52567625

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4 stars (159 reviews)

Cayce Pollard, a design consultant, is on the trail of the creator of Internet videos that have attained a worldwide cult following. As she draws closer to the truth, Cayce's life is threatened by those who will stop at nothing to protect the secret of the videos.

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Review of 'Pattern recognition' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I...didn't get it. Honestly, that might be all there is to say. There were a lot of moving parts and a lot of evocative language, but ultimately, it didn't go anywhere to me. I felt like the pacing was so odd, there were topics that Gibson really perseverated on, like: someone broke into Damien's apartment! The apartment was broken into! Was the apartment broken into? We think someone broke into Damien's apartment! All of a sudden, it just occurred to me that the apartment might have been broke into and I need to process it because we've never discussed it before!
The pacing with characters was even stranger: Bigend's ex-girlfriend - who was never introduced on-screen, but was supposedly Cayce's best friend, who would spontaneously send e-mails and I had to remind myself who she was every single time. A lot of characters (like Magda and her brother, Ngemi and …

Review of 'Pattern recognition' on Goodreads

5 stars

This was the second time reading this, almost 10 years later. Probably due to the age difference I enjoyed it much, much more the second time around. Hence the upgrade in stars.

Gibson has patterned a world of cascading dualities, a world of "mirror-worlds" as the protagonist calls them. Mirror-Things that look similar (but not quite) to Real-Things, and sometimes end up looking more real, more substantial, more meaningful and connected. There are patterns of lateral similarity becoming visible every time the protagonist moves her point of view. From city to city, from the online to the offline, from the personal to the ritualistic communal.

Pattern Recognition is his most current work I've read, and leaving aside the 9/11 attacks as a temporal point of reference, the most timeless. It's not SciFi, nor cyberpunk, the events could have indeed happened when published in '02, or they could have happened in …

Review of 'Pattern recognition' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Okay, I gave up on this book in the first 2 chapters, at the same time I replaced my mp3 player. 7 months later my 'new' mp3 player needs its battery charged and I am desperate to be listening to something, so I dig the old mp3 player out and this book starts where I left off. A couple of paragraphs in the book gets better and I listened to the end.

The heroine is not the shallow self centered person I did not like in the first 2 chapters, By the end of the book she is likable.


Review of 'Pattern recognition' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This was amazing. Best read in a loooong time. Ever felt like there are a few puppet masters of "public" opinion? This thriller/detective story (untraditionally non-sci-fi for William Gibson) will take you for a ride and make you wonder what opinions are your own. Follow Cayce Pollard, the hunter of tomorrow's "cool" on her quest to uncover maker(s?) of intricate video footage appearing randomly on the Internet and you will "take a duck in your face".

Review of 'Pattern Recognition' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Gibson is fantastic at managing multiple storylines and weaving them into one. The setting of this book was remarkably non-technical - almost one for the business professions if necromancer is for the geeks. The book excels at the mechanics of story but does not foretell any shifts in society, or show a new side of current trends, which great scifi does.

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Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Business intelligence
  • Women private investigators
  • Fiction

Places

  • England
  • London
  • London (England)