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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The novel is set in a number of present day cities, in a way that seems futuristic/sci-fi. I read this book in a class called &quot;The Novel and Globalization&quot;--and I believe having that context was helpful-at first.  As the book progressed the suspence was built on the mystery of where the ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/860890">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.  <br/><br/>  Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved <em>Pattern Recognition</em> nearly as much as <em>Neuromancer</em> and felt the two novels had a lot of similarities. Even though it is classified as general fiction, the novel has a strong SF feel to it. The highly technological societies (New York and the &quot;mirror world&quot; of London) where things ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12496714">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a little different for Gibson. It's not really a future setting, but it drips with the usual Gibson sentence fragments and whimsy. Overall, the story is there and it has a beginning a middle and an end, but to be honest, the book lacks in a particular quality - there's nothing really at stak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7604187">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.  <br/><br/>  Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliantly written, but like the rest of Gibson's novels, the ending leaves something to be desired. Not exactly unfulfilling, more like seeing all of the pieces come together into a picture that is just a little underwhelming. Just like the rest of Gibson's other works (Neuromancer and Spook Count...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29386237">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Refreshingly unlike his classic book, Neuromancer, and the others in the Sprawl trilogy, Pattern Recognition cements for me the idea of Gibson as a great writer, showcasing his ability to predict societal trends, blend those into an exciting external plot while maintaining an overall satisfying emot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4846941">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I has an affinity for cyberpunk stories, which is how I know Gibson's work. I feel a certain distance, though, between his characters and the world they are caught up in; the language is scintillating, but it feels very &quot;surface&quot; to me. <em>Pattern Recognition</em> was the first of his novels that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3374361">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books of all time - easily in my top five. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always been grabbed by the way that Gibson seems to get inside the skin and the mood of his characters. His 'Sprawl' characters had lives that were weird and just barely comprehensible, but that was partly due to them living lives and having bad habits that our world hasn't had a chance to pick...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40009358">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, <em>Pattern Recognition</em> takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying &quot;cool hunter&quot; with an allergy to brand names.<p>   Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called &quot;the footage,&quot; let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.<p>   Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With <em>Pattern Recognition</em>, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p></p>]]>
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