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Title: Too Cool
Review: I hate to be the first less than glowing review here, but I was let down by Gibson's latest work. The social anomie and alienation here is more tangible than the text, plot or characters. With the plot moving as slow as molasses, circling around images on the internet, and halting to explore strange looking calculators, I felt this work was held together by tone alone. Granted the language is beautiful but the work tried to explore advertising and globalization (according to the bookjacket) yet I feel I've seen these dim glances before. I feel the My Year of Meats (Ruth Ozeki) much more powerfully did what Pattern Recognition thought it was trying. The book is worth reading simply because it's Gibson looking at the present.
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