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This book will make a great movie when someone who knows how to do ethical problems rewrites the dialogue and the scenes. A lot of the book is spent in set dressing that will disappear into the background in a movie.

This is a great book that explores the question: what if I had done something differently and what is a successful life.

There are nit picky problem, but I still give it 5 stars and recommend it to everyone.

Thanks to my sister for recommending it to me.

This book will make you see the media and the people they talk to in a very new light. This is the playbook that Trump used in 2016 to get elected.

A great take on the Norse tales. I would recommend this book to everyone who has anything above a passing interest in myths or European folk tales of any sort. The dialogue and sensibilities have been modernized a bit, but you get the impression this was done to lower the barrier to understanding the archetypes instead of changing them. I will be reading this book again.

This book is truly a classic that I read in the 80's it has stood the test of time. It has only has gotten better as the layers of nostalgia that Gibson layered into the original read one way in the late 80's now read with an additional patina of nostalgia that makes them even sensuous, luxurious, and grotesque yet still with a word; Greater.

“Things aren't different. Things are things.”

“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”

“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, 'in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.' On the Sony, a two-dimensional space war faded behind a forest of mathematically generated ferns, demonstrating the spatial possibilities of logarithmic spirals; cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test systems, helmets feeding into fire control circuits of tanks and war planes. 'Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. ”

I think this is one of the most enlightening and thought provoking books about politics and religion and therefore groups that I have ever read. I wish I could make it required reading.