k10nJim Klopfenstein's Radio WeblogGibson at his best- February 14, 2003 I just finished William Gibson's new novel, Pattern Recognition. Neil Gaiman's prominent blurb on the back cover calls it Gibson's best since Neuromancer. I'd go one step further and say best so far. Neuromancer was seminal, but I don't think he perfected his style until Mona Lisa Overdrive. Pattern Recognition has the rich Gibson style, a riveting plot, and there's even more of it (350 pages). In his recent books, the enjoyment for me has come mostly from his crystalline prose. This one had a..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105476/2003/02/14.html#a119 A long time coming, and ...- February 12, 2003 I just finished Richard Sanford's Long Time Gone, a coming-of-age road novel set in 1968. It was published recently by Xlibris, which I believe is a print-on-demand vanity publisher. I really enjoyed the book and I could imagine it doing well on its merits. Richard and I were friends for a while as undergraduates (in 1968, in fact), but I lost track of him after college. I bought this book after seeing it mentioned in an alumni newsletter and reading some very good reviews on amazon.com. I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105476/2003/02/12.html#a118 |