Hello everyone, first post here, just finished Pattern Recognition and felt I needed to come online and post something. Really found the book an incredible read. I'd read Count Zero and Neuromancer when I was in school and I read Spook Country before Christmas. But something in this book just really clicked with me and I'd like to say a huge thank you to Gibson for such an amazing piece of work.

Hey Barry - I know just what you mean. I felt the exact same way while I was reading the book, it is a fully immersing experience.

It only got better the second and third time through (immediately upon finishing). Re-reads strongly recommended.

I felt the same way.

I related to so much in this book that it really made me want to send a letter to Gibson and tell him all about it. Then I read on his post here that he probablly doesn't even read fan letters.

I started a letter to him anyway but I felt kind of lame about it. Maybe I'll post it here instead if I get the courage.

Any time I've ever felt the impulse to contact an author about their work - I usually end up trashing the idea wholesale.

Although I know if I had written something and someone not only read it but took the time to tell me about it - I'd be thrilled. I would be a total fan-mail whore.

Bill doesn't do fan mail, alas.

... but it's not unknown for him to read the board. I'd say write your fan mail here, like the rest of us!

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Originally posted by lint:
I started a letter to him anyway but I felt kind of lame about it.

Good to know that I'm not the only one who mused about doing stuff like that. Though I never started to write the letter and probably wouldn't have been about PR (damn fine book, nonetheless!)

Though being on the board could also be seen as sort of paying tribute, IMO.

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There was quite a bit in Pattern Recogition I personally could relate to. There are other awesome books Gibson has written and they all affect everyone in a different way.

I've honestly never wanted to contact an author before about their work. If we were the only ones who felt that way, then authors wouldn't have a mountain of fan mail to ignore.

The rest of us, we just stalk him.

I find myself wondering on what it means - for an author like WG to have a built-in 'Net entourage like this. It must occupy at least some corner of his consciousness and in some way, however subtly, influence him.

Or some not so subtle ways - as with the Silvertips request - where the WGB becomes an auxiliary distributed processing unit for his brain.

Did I have a point? It must be time for bed.

Check the Spook Country promotional video, around 4'20".

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Originally posted by Psychophant:
Check the Spook Country promotional video, around 4'20".

Thank you Psychophant for pointing that out to me. I remember seeing that before but that last bit about the percentage of his readership that interacts with him on the WBG was new to me.

"It (the WGB) alleviates some degree of the solitude of the process... ...It alleviates it for me."

Aww, that's a sweet thing to say. :-)

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Originally posted by lint:
There was quite a bit in Pattern Recogition I personally could relate to. There are other awesome books Gibson has written and they all affect everyone in a different way.

I've honestly never wanted to contact an author before about their work. If we were the only ones who felt that way, then authors wouldn't have a mountain of fan mail to ignore.

I got some really cool shit from Chuck Palahniuk when i wrote him. Gave me a squirrel and a necklace with my name on it he made.

I don't know if he still has time for all that or not though.

Pretty hip though.

lol....Chuck still lives in Portland, he's got more time on his hands than most of the rest of the world. there's nothing to do there but write, drink and fight.

I've never read any Chuck Palahniuk - but your post kept his name floating around in my mind for the past some days. I ended up downloading some interviews that Rick Kleffel did with him and really enjoyed and identified with a lot of what he had to say.

I think I'll be reading some of his in the near future.

BTW - the squirrel and necklace he made for you - that's very cool. I can understand that completely.

Just in case any one is interested in downloading some of these audio interviews... I found the motherload.


http://trashotron.com/agony/indexes/audio_interview_index.htm

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
lol....Chuck still lives in Portland, he's got more time on his hands than most of the rest of the world. there's nothing to do there but write, drink and fight.

Once upon a time he was going to start a writer's colony out there on some property he was looking at acquiring.

I didn't realize they actually made Choke into a movie until a few days ago.

I.
Can't.
Wait.

For the writer's colony or the movie?

After Fight Club, anything else done on film for Chucky will disappoint.

I don't see an adaptation topping FC.

Get Jim Uhls to adapt Neuro, why don't they...

Choke is just a better story than FC, but then again, it helps to read the words in between the covers, so I understand how you might have missed that.

And Brad Pitt can not act worth a shit, eye candy is his niche.