He took a duck in the face at two hundred and fifty knots...

[Nightshade]

Im reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson and in a away it reminds me of this place so, has anyway has anyone else read it??


:D:D

[Virgil]

I have not and have never heard of it. Perhaps you can elaborate, Night. Why does it remind you of here?

[Nightshade]

A large part of the book is a bout a forum and it describes some of the people on it and well it just seemed more I don know eal? recognisable to me than any book Ive read in a long time. there was a Scher/logos like character, a Star-ish one. And someof the converstaions she had with one of the other charcters were just the kind of toatally random subjects Ive seen around here.

But them there was the main thing itself they are all obsessed with "the footage" which is mysterious little films floating around the internet.


The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names.
Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce...more (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425198685/sr=8-1/qid=1156674209/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1634950-7424964?ie=UTF8)

In all I enjoyed it alot.:D :nod:

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[Sarka]

I reeeally enjoyed "Pattern Recognition." And yes, it totally reminded me of here... It's so totally weird, and yet so real at the same time... Pretty awesome, eh?

:alien:

[Pensive]

I didn't know about it before reading the thread. The novel seems cool. It's good to see authors who write about cyberpunk.