Tuesday, September 04, 2007
READ ALONG WITH ME
I read a lot and I don't tell the blog about all of it.
Some of it is just escapist crap (but good escapist crap). Some is compulsive. All of Ward Just's work, for example.
David Mitchell, the same.
I just know other people don't want to do that routine. Or hear about it either.
But this is an exception.
I have started William Gibson's new novel Spook Country and it is so good after the first hundred pages that I want you to promise me that you will go right out or go to Amazon or any book site and order this book.
It is in hard cover but you will get a discount.
It entered the NYT Best Seller list at Number 5 this week.
I never read anything that gets on the best seller lists but there are many many Gibson fans.
I have read all he has written.
This one is based on the present and it is more creepy, funny, exciting than the ones written in some dystopian future.
Optimistic dystopianism.
It is the dystopian now.
Post 9-11 but it doesn't wear that on its sleeve.
It is so good.
I have never reviewed a book before I finished it.
I love that word 'dystopia'. Can you tell?Labels: books
