Pattern recognition

[a novel]

367 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2005 by Berkley Books.

ISBN:
978-0-425-19868-1
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OCLC Number:
804752058

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4 stars (18 reviews)

One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself. William Gibson's new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.

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5 stars

Personal 5. I can forgive the ending.
Enjoyed the excellent narration by Shelly Frasier.
Interesting comparison of class in England being similar to gun rights in America. Leads to the reflection that participation in a class system in America is voluntary, but in England it is more ingrained.

Spoilers below:
Immediately after I had seen a vanity plate with the text: "WHY?", I heard this passage:
Looking up at the animated forest of signs, she sees the Coca-Cola logo pulsing on a huge screen, followed by the slogan "NO REASON!".

I've had an obsession with a photo I took of a pelican in flight, slightly blurry, with wings against a gray sky. It is the only photo that I have hanging in a frame.
Very much like the description in the book of Nora's earlier work being edited down to a single frame, of a bird in flight, slightly out …

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