(virtual light ebook is 99p on amazon.co.uk (and kobo.com) at the moment btw. last month it was idoru. i am waiting for ATP.)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link
I ordered the UK Penguin paperbacks of the Bridge trilogy from Blackstones last night. I like the matching covers and haven't read the books since they were new, so birthday present to myself (I turn 50 next month).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
yeah, i re-bought the original trilogy (and the matching Burning Chrome) after i lost the first set to a flood.
virtual light was the first i bought, remaindered in a bookshop in leicester. everything since has been the hardback. and ATP is signed "merry xmas '99" (was a present, i didn't get to meet him).
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
There’s probably something Gibsonian to the fact that I own paperbacks of the sprawl trilogy but the idea of digging out a yellowed, dusty copy that’d make me sneeze and turn my reading light up made me just procure the ebook
― mh, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
The footage forum stuff in Pattern Recognition reads like early ILX. You lurk in’, William?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
reminded me of newsgroup conspiracy theories tbh
― mh, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
Gibson's best joke is reducing all of Pattern Recognition to creating "Trope Slope, for instance, our viral pitchman platform" in Spook Country
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 December 2021 06:21 (two years ago) link
First teaser trailer for The Peripheral tv series is out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSaWHbCSmRI
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 September 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
I did not imagine the pre-Jackpot humans with Appalachian accents
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 9 September 2022 04:34 (one year ago) link
that trailer is actively making me not want to see it
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 September 2022 06:51 (one year ago) link
production design-wise it looks not too far off what i had in my head when i read it but that's not MY flynne and burton ffs, casting seems way off
this reminds me i need to get back to slogging through the last quarter of AGENCY, which i am not enjoying at all
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 September 2022 09:14 (one year ago) link
Revive made me think he'd Prokofieved it
― Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 9 September 2022 09:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's where the book takes place, out in the sticks.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 9 September 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
It's pretty explicitly mentioned in the book!
― mh, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
I think this looks really good myself and very closely matches up with both how I envisioned the setting and the characters, so I'm excited for it.
I had the same experience. The first half was good and felt like it was building toward something; the end of the book is seriously underwhelming.
― akm, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
I don't have a lot of confidence that they'll pull off anything great, but I usually enjoy Chloë Grace Moretz's acting and Nolan/Joy have pulled off some decent television on occasion, so..
― mh, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
Agency was very whatever, but (I’m hoping) planted seeds that will sprout in the next book.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
I watched the trailer. Dunno how I feel about it. Not gonna spring for Amazon Prime to watch it, but if DVD sets are available for rent at some point, might check it out.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Out in the sticks does not mean "up in the holler" - the contemporary setting seemed more decaying rust belt Ohio or Pennsylvania, empty Kansas town maybe, rather than east Kentucky. It doesn't matter but it just didn't sound right for the characters to me.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 9 September 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
Looks pretty cool. I don't mind if they take some liberties with this book/series, because the source material isn't perfect.
― beard papa, Friday, 9 September 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
A Blue Ant trilogy series by the guy who did Mr. Robot could be good - in terms of visual style at least.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 9 September 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
i really should read those (I did Pattern Recognition which I loved but never got to the follow ups)
― akm, Friday, 9 September 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
Spook Country is really good. Zero History is pretty good until it sinks in that the whole thing is just a love letter to Gibson's obsession with selvedge denim jeans.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 9 September 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
haha I love the fabric history detours!
― sleeve, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
I like selvedge denim jeans so I'll probably enjoy it
― akm, Saturday, 10 September 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
I mean, it's a good book, I've read it a few times, but I distinctly remember on my first read thinking, "Wait...is this whole book...about pants?"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 10 September 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Unperson, did you read that long New Yorker profile about Gibson a couple years back?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 10 September 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
Gibson got a couple of clothing collabs off of Pattern Recognition, that plotline in the third book was VMIC.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 10 September 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
http://www.selfedge.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=647
Only $990
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 10 September 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link