Spook Country

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Tito is in his early twenties Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node Node doesn t exist yet, which is fine she s used to that But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up Really actively blocking it It s odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much Which she doesn t she can t afford to Milgrim is a junkie A high end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs Milgrim figures he wouldn t survive twenty four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can t say, but it seems to be military in nature At least, Milgrim s very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms Bobby Chombo is a producer , and an enigma In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment He refuses to sleep in the same place twice He meets no one Hollis Henry has been told to find him. Best Read [ Spook Country ] By [ William Gibson ] – kino-fada.fr William Gibson s Blue Ant series theme seems to be the post Cold War post 9.11 world where governments, government agencies, intelligence groups and powerful global entities have made paradigm shifts in their focus and world view.Blue Ant is a global marketing agency led by Belgian Hubertus Bigend and operated out of London Bigend sees modern advertising as reverse espionage and finds that his special projects involving post cyberpunk underground investigations akin to an organisms need for William Gibson s Blue...I finished reading William Gibson s newest novel, Spook Country, a few days ago and have been trying to figure out how I feel about it It is one of the few books I have eagerly scooped up in hardcover, I loved his Pattern Recognition so much The promise of another book set in what can only be called the extreme contemporary moment was too much for me to pass up or wait for paperback to experience.Unfortunately, Spook Country does not rise to the level of its predecessor The main problem, in I finished reading William Gibson s newest novel, Spook Country, a few days ago and have been trying to figure out how I feel about it It is one of the few books I have eagerly scooped up in hardcover, I loved his Pattern Recognition so much The promise of another book set in what can only be called the extreme contemporary moment was too much for me to pass up or wait for paperback to experience.Unfortunately, Spook Country ...Quite possibly my favourite Gibson Quite possibly a modern classic Quite possibly the best book you ll read this year The Blue Ant sequence is excellent and elegantly concludes in Zero History, but this is the one I come back to Masterful prose, gripping narrative, weird and fascinating characters.3.5 starsIn this 2nd book in the Blue Ant series, the owner of the inscrutable Blue Ant Company eccentric billionaire Hubertus Bigend takes an interest in a new art form The book can be read as a standalone with no problem.Spook Country follows three groups of characters whose story threads merge as the narrative unfolds The action moves from various parts of the United States to Canada as the protagonists pursue their agendas Entrepreneur Hubertus Bigend has comm...It s a little thin Compulsively readable, nicely plotted, and delightful in its references to places and technologies of the 2006 moment In this, I read it under the right conditions the day it was released, on an LA NY flight It opens on the block in which I used to live I drove past Gray s Papaya in midtown just as his characters had breakfast there But the thing is, the characters just get thinner and thinner It s intentional, I guess He s trying to create new archetypes But it It s a little thin Compulsively readable, nicely plotted, and delightful in its references to places and technologies of the 2006 moment In this, I read it under the right conditions the day it was released, on an LA NY flight It opens on the block in which I used to live I drove past Gray s Papaya in midtown just as his characters had breakfast there But the thing is, the characters just get thi...This has to be the least thrilling thriller I ve ever read I never felt like there were any serious stakes for any of our three protagonists unless it was during the incessant tooth brushing scenes Indeed, all the major characters in Spook Country have impeccable oral hygiene, but I digress Hollis Henry, former lead singer of The Curfew...I was disappointed by this book William Gibson, touted as a writer with ideas, handles the conceptual with a surprising lack of deftness In one sense, this book is about name checking pop culture ephemera and devices More attention is given to the description of the insoles of Adidas GSG 9 boots and cesium bullets than actual story development The chapters are anything but, and give the novel the feel of a technologically mediated novela on Univision.But,on the object oriented I was disappointed by this book William Gibson, touted as a writer with ideas, handles the conceptual with a surprising lack of deftness In one sense, this book is about name checking pop culture ephemera and devices More attention is given to the description of the insoles of Adidas GSG 9 boots and cesium bullets than actual story development The chapters are anything but, and give the novel the feel of a technologically mediated novela on Univision.But,on the object oriented aspects of Spook Country The emphasis on locative media, visors, bullets, black coats, shoes, et cetera reads as a combination of Bruce Sterling, John Seabro...Although this was generally an interesting read, for me it had some fundamental problems 1 For the first 50 pages I found myself daydreaming and constantly having to reread bits 2 The contemporary technology in this book is going to soon date itself I don t know if Gibson considers this scifi, but the issues at hand and the technology already feel a little dated Though as a result, I suppose it may appeal to a wider audience than other scifi or technical mysteries 3 It was truly Although this was generally an interesting read, for me it had some fundamental problems 1 For the first 50 pages I found myself daydreaming and constantly having to reread bits 2 The contemporary technology in this book is going to soon date itself I don t know if Gibson considers this scifi, but the issues at hand and the technology already feel a little dated Though as a result, I suppose it may appeal to a wider audience than other scifi or technical ...I ve been reading William Gibson for a few years now, well after The Movement came and went and the world adopted and forgot the term cyberspace I wish I had been around to feel the freshness of that way of visualizing data, but it s a sad fact that I m young enough to simply take that for granted Possibly, kids who grew up around Cape Canaveral have the same take on Heinlein.At any rate, Spook Country isn t a novel of the near future, but the here and now, and, honestly, it s everything I ve been reading William Gibson for a few years now, well after The Movement came and went and the world adopted and forgot the term cyberspa...I struggled to find a reason to give this 3 stars and I couldn t Because the first book in the series, Pattern Recognition, was okay, and I gave it 3 stars, and this book just did nothing for me Usually 2 stars means I actively disliked or was annoyed by a book as opposed to 1 star, which means I hate it with the passion of a thousand burning suns , but Spook Country just bored me.Part of the problem was that it s a multi POV book with short chapters switching between a very different I struggled to find a reason to give this 3 stars and I couldn t Because the first book in the series, Pattern Recognition, was okay, and I gave it 3 stars, and this book just did nothing for me Usually 2 stars means I actively disliked or was annoyed by a book as opposed to 1 star, which means I hate it with the passion of a thousand burning suns , but Spook Country just bored me.Part of the problem was that it s a multi POV book with short chapters switching between a very different cast of characters There s Tito, the Russian speaking Cuban American who s a member of some sort of espionage crime family, who practices a blend of Russian systema and Santeria There s Milgram, the drug addicted Russian interpreter who s the semi hostage sidekick to a shady quasi government operative named Brown There s Hollis, a former band m...

Spook Country
  • English
  • 27 January 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 371 pages
  • 0399154302
  • William Gibson
  • Spook Country