Another late-night book-inspired post...
Jul. 1st, 2004 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyJust finished reading 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson. Extremely good. It's as compelling as his earlier books without being anywhere near as ostentatiously and self-consciously cool. Not that I dislike that in his earlier books :) but it's impressive that this one is just as grabby without trying to be that flashy.
It's interesting, and to me sort of disappointing, that his books have pulled in from the future to the now, going through near-future on the way. I really liked his future, I found it highly believable, and I feel like it had a lot more stories to tell - but I don't see him returning to that area given the way his more recent stuff has shifted emphasis.
Anyway, I didn't really like the near-future books (Idoru etc) anywhere near as much as the first few, but this one is definitely as good, if not better, than Count Zero et al.
In other news today, I nearly had a job for tomorrow, then didn't. So that was briefly exciting :) Just a one-day thing anyway, so not a huge loss, but it would have been nice to do some paid work again.
Oh yes, and this evening I shut down the main customer on my web hosting service for non-payment and lack of communication. This seems to have caused a sudden shift in their attitude and it's possible they may even pay now, which frankly has surprised me - I was expecting them to tell me to stuff it and leave me with nothing to show for three years' hosting services. (Yes, I did leave it incredibly late to invoice them, but it's been a weird few years.)
It's interesting, and to me sort of disappointing, that his books have pulled in from the future to the now, going through near-future on the way. I really liked his future, I found it highly believable, and I feel like it had a lot more stories to tell - but I don't see him returning to that area given the way his more recent stuff has shifted emphasis.
Anyway, I didn't really like the near-future books (Idoru etc) anywhere near as much as the first few, but this one is definitely as good, if not better, than Count Zero et al.
In other news today, I nearly had a job for tomorrow, then didn't. So that was briefly exciting :) Just a one-day thing anyway, so not a huge loss, but it would have been nice to do some paid work again.
Oh yes, and this evening I shut down the main customer on my web hosting service for non-payment and lack of communication. This seems to have caused a sudden shift in their attitude and it's possible they may even pay now, which frankly has surprised me - I was expecting them to tell me to stuff it and leave me with nothing to show for three years' hosting services. (Yes, I did leave it incredibly late to invoice them, but it's been a weird few years.)
