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Title: Beyond Recognition
Review: Can anyone recognize this pattern? Zzzzzzzzzzz. That's the sound of someone who's just finished reading Willaim Gibson's new novel "Pattern Recognition". Try to imagine a contemporary thriller involving marketing & advertiseing, collectable calculators, September 11th, international intrigue and a cult of internet geeks obsessed with a series of web-based film clips that may or may not be part of a longer work. Now imagine characters as stiff as statues, endless descriptions of clothing, shoes & luggage, dialogue as dull as ditchwater, pages of characters opening e-mail, reading e-mail, closing e-mail, opening e-mail, sending e-mail, closing e-mail, etc, etc. All of this is presented in prose as compelling as a shopping list written by the Raymond Chandler of the information age and almost guaranteed to induce The Big Sleep.
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