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Title: lots of text about nothing much really
Review: The book focuses on style instead of content. It does a good job on the style front and it's readable. Unfortunately the story line is practically nonexistent. The little that is there doesn't fit well logically and in the very end things are explained with information and additional characters yanked out of the blue. Very unsatisfying ending. It's like those old detective stories where in the end it turns out that the murderer was the gardener or cook who was mentioned in a half sentence in the whole book. Gibson's book feels like this, except the gardener doesn't even get a half sentence.It feels as if Gibson wanted to write a book about cool but had no ideas for a real story line. You get everything from leather jackets, to anime but not much originality and creativity.One thing the book certainly deserves: the title for the worlds longest written Apple commercial.
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