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irá adorar Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. One of Gibson's "the future is now!" books. Not as good as classic cyberpunk Gibson, but an enjoyable and quick read. (  ) hilaritas | Oct 19, 2009 |  One of Gibson's "the future is now!" books. Not as good as classic cyberpunk Gibson, but an enjoyable and quick read. ( ) hilaritas | Oct 19, 2009 | despite interesting topics (apophenia, viral video, marketing/globalisation/capitalism/etc...) and a few great sentences, this book was weak. Definitely what I think of as a "plot novel" where the movement of the narrative is so primary to the author's concerns that he castrates all the characters and descriptions. In just the most obvious instance, there's a long exposition in dialogue of everything that's been secretly happening in the book in the 2nd-to-last chapter, and then the last chapter has a string of emails from virtually every character, like one of those cheesy movie endings where we're told what everyone is doing five years hence. Maneuvers like that are symptomatic of plot-premacy, but also the author's lazi/ineptness: a Joycean epiphany, on the contrary, retrospectively rearranges all the previous events according to an organically developed revelation. Which takes actual talent to execute. (  ) phette23 | Oct 19, 2009 | With 'Pattern Recognition', Gibson moved away from speculative fiction, or rather the world caught up to him. Proof that the future is here. (  ) cschack | Oct 5, 2009 | Vermoeiend en saai. Neuromancer en zijn andere verhalen waren pageturners, dit is een weglegger. ( ) jvanhee | Sep 24, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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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's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father’s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.
Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With Pattern Recognition, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. --Jeremy Pugh
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