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Title: patterns
Review: Pattern Recognition was not much fun to read. I found myself having to back up several times just to figure out where I was, who I was with, and what we were doing. Gibson introduced some neat ideas, like "coolhunting," but they went mostly undeveloped. When I look back now, 15 minutes after finishing the book, I see darkness, some half-grasped plot points whirling around like street trash in the wind...and I'm a good reader. I wanted to like Cayce, but there wasn't enough of her to like, or the other characters either. The whole novel seemed to pick up and discard elements of modern life--modern wealthy life, that is--with abandon. I thought the ending was less than satisfying. Yay, happy ending. I was more relieved than anything else. Having committed my time and money to the book, I couldn't just not finish.
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