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How often do you read Gibson?
I own the Sprawl trilogy, 2/3rds of the Bridge trilogy, and Burning Chrome. I read them all the time, I can pick them up and start anywhere. You? ~~born of cyberspace~~ Humanity's last chance for survival. the world isn't ready for me but here i am true patriot love in all our sons command |
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From 89 to 98, I read Neuromancer once a year.
The rest, about once every three or so. PR I have been reading once a year since it came out, and I have read SC twice. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -Albert Einstein |
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I read the entire lot every 1 to 2 years. Usually in order of publication, but once backwards (starting with 2nd PR read).
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I have read all his books about six times except The Difference Engine which I have read about three times and SC which I have read three times also.
That likely breaks down to rereading all of them every two years. But I have read some more than six times. |
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I'll usually pick up one of the older books when my "to read" pile is exhausted and I haven't had the time or money to rebuild it. Kind of as a stop-gap, every three or four months.
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so...
so far, i read Gibson the most often... i'm such a... something. geek? fangirl? nerd? ~~born of cyberspace~~ Humanity's last chance for survival. the world isn't ready for me but here i am true patriot love in all our sons command |
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Person with fewer books on her read-once-a-year list?
 As far as I can remember, I started reading him in the early 90s, and I've bought more copies of Neuromancer than OK Computer, cause I keep lending them to people... And I don't read The Difference Engine as often, either...probably at four or five times for that one. _____________________________________ ::swoon:: |
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How often do you read them? How many times? |
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I've read Neuromancer twice and Virtual Light twice, and most of the short stories twice. The rest once.
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i can't even count how many times i've read them. i have them all over the place, bring them with me to work, and just grab them when i'm between other books. i probably read one Gibson every week. ~~born of cyberspace~~ Humanity's last chance for survival. the world isn't ready for me but here i am true patriot love in all our sons command |
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Saint Greenbot, founder of Gibsufism Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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That's quite a bit. |
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Apostate. |
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yeah... what can i say, i like the books! ~~born of cyberspace~~ Humanity's last chance for survival. the world isn't ready for me but here i am true patriot love in all our sons command |
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Yeah, I have read them way too much as well.
How long have you been reading them? you're 20, right? because, if you keep up this pace until you're 25, they will institutionalize you. Or put you in charge of a startup. I forget which. |
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i've been reading them since my dad found his copy of Burning Chrome and gave it to me the summer i was 14...
six years. got the Sprawl series that Christmas and "Virtual Light" and "Iduro" for my 15th birthday. pretty much been a non-stop thing since then. now i'm pretty much addicted! hell, its better than cigarettes or drugs. ~~born of cyberspace~~ Humanity's last chance for survival. the world isn't ready for me but here i am true patriot love in all our sons command |
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Talk about a healthy addiction  I read em when an uncontrollable urge compels me to. That urge probably comes once a year or when I'm lacking that special thing which I never fail to find in a Gibson book. |
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I don't know. I don't keep track. But I'm pretty sure it's only in the half-dozen or so range for everything pre-PR. PR I've read twice, and SC only once.
As I get older I'm finding less and less time to read, and more and more books I want to read, so I do less re-reading now. ________ A child wounded in body and spirit. An iguana driven mad by pain. A woman fighting to save them both and the man who is their only hope... |
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I don't keep track either. Sprawls and Burning Chrome probably twice a year since publication, though there are stories in BC I read more often.
I hate to admit this but hope I'm not alone: I miss the criminality of the earliest work. I know there's continued exploration of that line wg likes where crime is not quite art and art not quite crime but I would appreciate some openly, expressly, indulgently underworld settings. I guess I'm just getting old and miss the real thing . . . |
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Well, Tito was a crim, and many of the characters in the Bridge Trilogy. And Dorotea was a kind of a crim.
But yeah, not as many addicts and punks as before. But he's grown up, you know? It's hard to keep writing about guttersnipes when you aren't in that mindset anymore. Plus, the lifestyle is often one-dimensional. At a certain age, a certain hipster look at crime, a certain kind of rebelliousness.... as Gibson said--adolescent. I suppose he could go The Sopranos route, existential gangster fiction. We know he likes Beat Takeshi. |
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