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Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to. 

Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms. 

Bobby Chombo is a &quot;producer,&quot; and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him. </default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished reading William Gibson's newest novel, Spook Country, a few days ago and have been trying to figure out how I feel about it. It is one of the few books I have eagerly scooped up in hardcover, I loved his Pattern Recognition so much. The promise of another book set in what can only be call...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6108915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a little thin. Compulsively readable, nicely plotted, and delightful in its references to places and technologies of the 2006 moment. (In this, I read it under the right conditions: the day it was released, on an LA-NY flight. It opens on the block in which I used to live. I drove past Gray's P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4705104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed by this book.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= William Gibson" title=" William Gibson"> William Gibson</a>, touted as a writer with ideas, handles the conceptual with a surprising lack of deftness.  In one sense, this book is about name-checking pop culture ephemera and devices.  More attention is given to the description of the insoles of Adidas GSG-9 bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5224473">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading William Gibson for a few years now, well after &quot;The Movement&quot; came and went and the world adopted and forgot the term &quot;cyberspace.&quot; I wish I had been around to feel the freshness of that way of visualizing data, but it's a sad fact that I'm young enough to simpl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8531060">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[No matter when or where it is set, all the best science fiction is really about the present day. William Gibson takes this idea to its logical conclusion and writes about the present day as if it were science fiction.<br/><br/>Gibson seems mostly concerned with how our (real) technologies are tran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4349500">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gibson weaves another dark mystery from the narrow viewpoints of exotic, solitary characters, as they move through a complex &quot;day after tomorrow&quot; alternate present.  We follow an ex-Cuban &quot;spy family&quot;, shuttling secrets from buyer to seller on iPods, and an ex-rocker now journali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46240106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i found this book to be one of mr. gibson's more frustrating productions. that's ok. i've been a fan, of some sort, for a while; i read neuromancer at just the stage of early adolescence  when it was probaby most effective; with each of his subsequent books i've been able to generally ignore the par...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25590549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this was generally an interesting read, for me it had some fundamental problems. 1) For the first 50 pages I found myself daydreaming and constantly having to reread bits 2) The contemporary technology in this book is going to soon date itself. I don't know if Gibson considers this scifi, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25214125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[William Gibson is one of the few writers that I make it a point to be in the store on release day of a new novel. I first inhaled 'Spook Country' over a two day period. I was initially disappointed, for reasons I cannot quite put my finger on. The best I could come up with was that it wasn't quite '...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23740387">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[William Gibson's latest work looks at our current world as a science fiction environment. His attention to detail, to marketing and to the latest hight tech toys manages to give his work the veneer of somewhere else while placing it firmly in the present. A neat trick.<br/><br/>Spook Country start...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16859801">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know that I have much to say about this. I enjoyed it on a sentence level almost exclusively. I didn't think it was an interesting story, and it came off as a watered-down version of <em>Pattern Recognition</em>.<br/><br/>There's no way to know this, but I have this weird suspicion Gibson struggled...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6871404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every author should only write one great book. all others should be burned. and i will be the arbiter of what single work is that authors most outstanding work. Otherwise, authors who introduce a new genera should be made to never write in that style again, as their contributions to society via the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4644563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I finished it. It was good, but overall I have to say that Mr. Gibson has fallen into a rut. I have but one suggestion for him: go out on a limb. Try going forward again. Take all your strengths and apply it to something a little more bold, perhaps attempt to truly look forward 20 to 50 years,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4358773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41356342">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, though the ability to suspend disbelief required increasing levels of will as the the story progressed and more details were revealed. Early in the book your brain works hard to discern patterns and analyze clues, but this turns out to be wasted effort, given the highly i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41356342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42516897">
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    <body><![CDATA[Spook country is set in the Northwest, William Gibson's home territory.  It is about spies and stealing artistic content.  It has some of the same characters that appeared in his previous book, Pattern Recognition.  It is a fun and entertaining read.]]></body>
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    <review id="6745002">
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not seem to finish this book; it took me over six months of picking it up and putting it back down for long stretches. The tidbits of wry, Gibson wit and insight are present, but evenly spaced throughout the book; instead of constant, they're consistent. I don't have much sympathy for any of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6745002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gibson returns to his too comfortable tripartite plot structure, where his dry humor shines but his plotting is rather clumsy.  Hollis is a poor substitute for Cayce, but Milgrim is a fascinatingly obedient character.  The locative art angle is something of a MacGuffin, but one senses that Gibson do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4575531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[William Gibson has moved over his career from cutting edge science fiction just past the predictable future, gradually moving backwards in his settings towards the present.  His last book, Pattern Recognition, felt like it was just barely into the future, maybe taking place the day after tomorrow.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51080134">more...</a>]]></body>
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