All Tomorrow's Parties / William Gibson

All Tomorrow's Parties

category: science fiction, author:

William Gibson

original copyright 1999,
started reading in April 2011

Agamedes' opinion: 4 out of 10

The most interesting thing about this book is the word map generated by my review:

The map was generated by Wordle... What a brilliant idea! I simply pasted in the text of the review...

Then found that the word "good" was highly visible. I had used "good" in the negative sense, of "no good reason" to read the book. Yet the single word "good" leaped out of the word map...

Just goes to show: It's not the words that give meaning, it's the way we use those words.

btw: The above map was generated by pasting the text -- with the word "good" removed. So the map is meaningless but at least it is not misleading.

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I started reading this book. Found it a bit hard to get into it, read another. Read a couple more. Read a few more chapters of this book. Gave it away as a bad job.

Near future science fiction: don't like it. Miserable characters: no thanks. Confusing story with random jumps to unexplained situations: need a good reason to read on... I found no good reason.

I don't know what was going on. I don't know who the characters were, neither the ones we met nor the ones referred to by the characters we did meet.

Gave up reading.

..o0o..

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