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  <date_added>Fri Jan 11 18:53:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine if you took all the flaws from Gibson's sprawl books, combined them into one story, and then deprived the story of any interesting action and characters? That's pretty much how Spook Country reads. It's an interesting world, some interesting concepts, some interesting cultural and historical currents, but half an interesting character and if there's a plot, I missed it. I couldn't finish this book. I skipped ahead to the ending, discovered that, in fact, nothing had happened there either, and gave up. Disappointing, to say the least, that the only signed Gibson book I have is Spook Country.<br/><br/>-Jim ]]></body>
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