He took a duck in the face at 250 knots....

I loved it. It was nice loving Gibson again. He's been a big tangly snooze, in my mind, since Mona Lisa Overdrive. He's always been better at brilliant pop culture snapshots than sustained plots. Pattern Recognition managed both.

My only real complaint is that he recycled a bit too much the plot from Count Zero, which is one of my favorite books ever and his most underrated. And his recycling left out the elusive magic of the first book--that wonderful creating, yearning AI--and replaced it with a vague media shadow image.

yeah, i noticed a similarity to the "ringu" (the ring)series right away. but of course, Gibson doesn't hide his love and fascination of things Japanese. just look at any of his books!