I just finished William Gibson's new novel, Pattern Recognition. Neil Gaiman's prominent blurb on the back cover calls it Gibson's best since Neuromancer. I'd go one step further and say best so far.
Neuromancer was seminal, but I don't think he perfected his style until Mona Lisa Overdrive. Pattern Recognition has the rich Gibson style, a riveting plot, and there's even more of it (350 pages). In his recent books, the enjoyment for me has come mostly from his crystalline prose. This one had a plot that made me want to stay up until four in the morning just to find out what was really going on.
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