Spook Country - William Gibson

[ToxPendragon]

I think I came to page 275 or so after struggling page by page through a tiresome slow and boring story that didn't go anywhere. The theme didn't stick, didn't fascinate, didn't seem plausible or believable so for the first time in my life I gave up reading a fiction... Mr Gibson, I paid $10.75 including taxes at san fransisco airport ... I want my money back!

[yukimaruzam]

Have read every one of his books - now reading Zero History. He is pretty much just how I imagined him - just from how he writes. I am so grateful for his work - one of the authors of a whole sub-genre.

[NoxInflux]

How can you say Virtual Light sucked? I think that was one of his best books. It was easier to read, it played out well and would make one hell of a movie. If any of the things he wrote sucked, all that comes to mind is Idoru which was kind of boring in my eyes. I am buying up everything he wrote. I'd like to see a new book of short stories by him. In the world of "cyberpunk" ... this guy is a king.

[thiswonderfullife]

Such an awful book.

[rentslave]

Some country.I saw only one spook the entire time.

[garfus2]

william gibson is a genius an possibly even a prophet of god, but not a god.

virtual light, and the difference engine kinda sucked, eh?

[carterburton]

I love how the father of cyberpunk has to hunt and peck to type. He's the best though. Just made me laugh.

[GDGspire]

William Gibson is a god.

[StratoJess]

i met Gibson once a few years ago.

his personality differs so much to the stories he has written in the 80s.

[cederom]

what he says about technology is genial!

CeDeROM WUZ HERE!

[Biochips1]

He still writes Cyberpunk.

[drsjohnny]

the only william gibson book i ever read was I Am Legend book and i just found somehting interesting out i knew him well his daughter anyway she used to come over to use our pool when we were little kids

[Biochips1]

I don't think that "I Am Legend" was written by Gibson.

Anyway, you know his daughter? I'm a little confused now, maybe you'd like to tell me more.

[drsjohnny]

ah well every now and than i went to my cousins place and there duaghter knew this guy's daughter so that's how i knew him wish i knew who he was at the time i would of talked to him more but after all i was just a kid

[Biochips1]

Is or was she pretty, Gibson's daughter?

[drsjohnny]

dont remember only reason i know it is becasuse my dad told me lol

[StevenZB1]

Richard Matheson wrote I am Legend

[jaycore]

i hate fucking 'intellects'

they say something so simple in a hard way , cmpletely unessesary,make sure every word they say is pure fucking gold,what are the odds somebodys gonna claim im imatutre or ignorant because i said fucking, twice?

[hirevssss]

I just finished tomorrows parties and I am still trying to figure out just what went on. But I found myself inside those characters minds every step of the way. Gibson is speaking of deteriorization of normal concepts of civilization and evolution in terms of technology. "it is a shame that technology will prevail and humanity will succumb to it"

Einstein

[hirevssss]

Reading spook country now, I am as usual wading through an enourmous amount of jargon and complex charachters and only want more of a stephen King approach and less division, complexity and that ever prevalent writers mind where you have to reread and reread. Gibson can write and he is brilliant but sheez give the not so high iq people a break sometimes? OK. I have an iq of 149, so it

s high, but gibson must have an iq of 190 or more.

[Cliodule]

What has happened to William Gibson's voice? I've seen Gibson speak in person, twice: once when he gave a reading from _The Difference Engine_, and once when he gave a reading from _Virtual Light_. Maybe I'm remembering wrongly, but he seemed to speak much more clearly back then: in this video, by contrast, he sounds like he has a bit of a speech impediment. Am I imagining things? I sure hope so.

[encantoman]

@Cliodule sorry for the late response, just found this thread..i think his speech has always had that kind of pattern, in the road trip video where he speaks at length in 'no maps for these territories', you hear back in 2000 the same mannerisms i would call them..

[nicolasrouelle]

i realy liked "Identification des schémas" so i will like this one

[foss1978]

i fondly remember listening to his audiobook reading of neuromancer when i traveled one summer as a late teen. I much prefer hearing his words to reading them, like william burroughs, his speech rhythms brings something special to his text thats his only. love the guy.

[mikal2k00]

It's still all about the footage, man.

F.F.F. 4-ever

[RhythmDroid]

I don't understand what was so out of the reach of people's understanding, here...what was so "academic" about what he was talking about? Also, does he not know how to type quickly?? That would be so interesting...he looked so un-ergonomic at his workspace!

[irishdoggydoo]

lets see how many big words I can throw together with the stoner space talking method that means I am smarter than everyone else. Keep shoving tampons up ya bum chump

[MONCRIEFD]

God bless you William Gibson. I hope people look back 500 years from now and say, "How did he get it right?"

I can't believe there are only 8 replies to this! Great Gibson footage is so hard to find.

P.S. One of the few authors I hope to meet before he, or I, pass on. Unfortunately, I doubt he will ever pass as far south as Texas.

[Vyrquenox]

Gibson is my hero I have a personal letter from him when I was a kid but he doesn't always get things right. I admire him still but he has fallen into the trap of academia being as renowned as he is; he doesn't understand the world like he used to. Not his fault.

[cosmoera]

When the Master speaks, we shut up...

[noisecontrol1]

Absolute Crap.

[hudson]

great take on "the singularity" from the video:

"Technology will eventually take us to a point where something will change so much that beyond that point we won't be able to recognize any of it at all and whatever is left of us, of our species beyond that point, won't recognize us as being the same species."

[scruch]

greatest writers!

[iLEZtube]

Great! Looking forward to this book from one of the greatest writers.

[Tricky1225]

Thanks, Striv.

Your Friend,

Archie

[Absolutneuromancer]

Great, stylish, sophisticated video. Thanks a lot for posting it. I'm looking forward to the book. Have to wait such a long time, though...

Best, absolutneuromancer