Re:William Gibson books...
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i love gibson's writing, and while if you are a hard core fan you can find how similar his stories are, i think that it's so distinct that it almost has to be predictible. not to mention that his ideas have been borrowed by tons of films and things so that makes them seem trite. there are three shorts in burning chrome which are prequels (or whatever the term is) for the sprawl trilogy. the coolset thing about the sprawl trilogy is that gibson didn't know crap about computers when he wrote them. Virtual light and idoru are more "realistic" (for lack of a better term) in part cuz he has learned more and more about computers. the characters from all his books sort of float into eachothers books, yet the books themselves don't depend on eachother to make sense. i think that there is really only one way to go about that, which is the style that he writes in, so yes his stuff is a little predictible. no worse than grisham though.
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i love gibson's writing, and while if you are a hard core fan you can find how similar his stories are, i think that it's so distinct that it almost has to be predictible. not to mention that his ideas have been borrowed by tons of films and things so that makes them seem trite. there are three shorts in burning chrome which are prequels (or whatever the term is) for the sprawl trilogy. the coolset thing about the sprawl trilogy is that gibson didn't know crap about computers when he wrote them. Virtual light and idoru are more "realistic" (for lack of a better term) in part cuz he has learned more and more about computers. the characters from all his books sort of float into eachothers books, yet the books themselves don't depend on eachother to make sense. i think that there is really only one way to go about that, which is the style that he writes in, so yes his stuff is a little predictible. no worse than grisham though.