Spook Country, by William Gibson

I listened to this novel in audio book format. It didn’t translate well; it was too complex, and too vague, to enable one to follow the story lines from chapter to chapter. Also, the narrative is quite layered, and wordy, so I found … more » myself losing track of the action as I pondered what it was I just heard.

To get a better sense of this novel, I guess I should probably read it. But now that I know how it all plays out in the end, I have no desire to re-read this novel.

In the end, it wasn’t the most spectacular audio novel that I’ve ever listened to. There was a lot of techno-babble—words and scenarios written into the narrative just for the sake of sounding complex and futuristic. I was not impressed; indeed, I was not.

~ by teejay17 on June 3, 2008.