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March 15, 2010

Spook Country by William Gibson

Filed under: Mystery — Randolph @ 3:51 pm

Spook Country by William GibsonSpook Country is a fast-paced book that conceals its subject until late in the book. I was disappointed in what it provided and how things played out.

The book has very short chapters, sometimes only one or two pages in length. For me, this made it difficult to get to know the characters and follow the events.

In the early book, it discusses lots of interesting technology innovations, but these eventually feel like just a way for the author to show his understanding, as they aren’t used in the book. Although the book keeps hinting that they are important. This went a long way to break the illusion of having a narrator vs. the author’s telling the story.

As the book neared its end, reviewing earlier material didn’t feel like it made sense. Some of the character actions early on didn’t feel like they were consistent with what the character should have known at the time. Although this only affected some minor events, it felt like the events were more oriented towards telling a story than internal consistency.

The suspense was good, it was never clear what was going on until the final pages. Although, again, I didn’t feel that the final solution was well thought out. I don’t think anyone would really use the solution they adopted.

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