Pattern Recognition

Unabridged
Author: William Gibson
Narrator: Shelly Frasier
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: Tantor Media
Date: March 2004
Length: 10 hours, 30 minutes
Ratings:
Formats:
  • CD

Overview

Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded on the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father - a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001 - Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing - and compelling - as the twenty-first century promises to be ... "Elegant, entrancing ... [Cayce's] globe-trotting gives Pattern Recognition its exultant, James Bond-ish edge..." ~The New York Times "Gibson's usual themes are still intact - globalism, constant surveillance, paranoia, and pattern recognition - only with the added presence of real-world elements..." ~Booklist

Reviews (4)

I have a Cube, too, w00t!

Written by Anonymous from Athens, GA on May 16th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 5/5

And -like my Cube- this is now something of a period piece, but an excellent one at that. Live the near-future, late 1990s style. Lovely narration, too.

Good, but not for me

Written by Sanjay Singhal on May 12th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 3/5

I'm sure there are people out there who appreciate William Gibson's atmosphere-intensive style of writing, but not me. I found it hard to concentrate on the book, as I couldn't tell the plot from the imagery. I had to eject halfway through the first disc because I kept going to the previous track.

Wonderful!

Written by Anonymous on March 23rd, 2006

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I really got sucked into this book, more then I thought. A little slow to start but Gibson's descriptions are amazing. Well worth a listen, perhaps females will like it more then men, I can see that, but any fan of Gibson's will enjoy this. Not recommended for readers new to Gibson's work.

Pattern Recognition

Written by John on October 29th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 1/5

In my opinion, women will like this book more than men. I found that there was little going on until the very end. I found it mostly boring and hard to concentrate on.