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Title: Outcools Itself
Review: Pattern Recognition started off really strong and then, somewhere along the way failed to continue to build on the steam, the power, of the first part of the novel. The novel centers around Cayce Pollard, a "coolhunter" who travels to London to advise a company on their new logo. While there, she is convinced to delve deeper into her "hobby" of sorts, a mysterious, online posting of short film clips of unknown origin. She is convinced to seek out the source of the clips and along the way is attacked, followed, harrassed and faces various other perils. The resolution of the novel is a bit of a "so what?" The motivation of many of the characters doesn't really add up. The novel is cool and hip and all that, but it's missing a soul, something to make us care about it.
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