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The Peripheral William Gibson Books

"The Peripheral" is not an easy read but it's also not as difficult as it appears. Gibson is having fun playing with temporal juxtapositions (not only in the main story but also in how he describes a scene) and words. He is a thoughtful and intelligent writer so what may appear obscure in his words is actually concrete ... but you'll have to have a very big vocabulary or have a dictionary nearby.

This book is plain fun to read. And I haven't even talked about the story.


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The Peripheral William Gibson Books Reviews

Excellent book but perhaps not a wise choice for your first Gibson novel. The first few chapters will only make sense in retrospect. The plot as a whole does not fully make sense at all. Prior readers of Gibson are used to this. Gibson does flashy technodystopia and this is his best in some time [which given the high quality of the worst of his writing should be a sign]. Fast pace, a few good characters, an excellent talent for dialog and setting. The ending won't exactly resolve anything but its so much fun I doubt anyone will care. A wonderful melange of time travel, printed matter, nano tech, declining Atlantic civilization, kleptocracy, postmodern art and ever so much more. The politics are mildly left but not to the point of preachy. The two worlds created in the novel cry out for more stories. Remains to be seen if we shall get them. If not I am quite sure the author will invent new worlds to amaze and amuse me.
Achingly beautiful prose. Great yarn. Not a lot of action, though, compared to, say, Neuromancer.
I liked the story line but didn't enjoy William Gibson's writing style. His sentences often didn't seem complete (missing/implied pronouns) and there were many others from which I could drive no meaning even after repeated readings.

The first one hundred or so pages I felt lost with no key to unlocking the secret code. A glossary of the authors invented terms/processes/items would have helped immensely. I would have given up early on if I hadn't been reading this for my local book club meeting. I gave up on trying to understand much of what Mr. Gibson was writing, and settle for following the basics of the plot line, which I did enjoy.

The story starts in some point after 2023 in the United States. Flynne Fisher is an ex-gamer, but just this once she agrees to sub for her brother and work his shift beta testing a game. Well, she does it again the next night and this time all doesn't go so well. Some one in the game is killed in a gruesome manner and she begins to question whether it really is a game.

The story skips back and forth between Flynne's time and a future time, about seventy years from them. In the future, Wilf Netherton has some involvement with the death that occurred and it's important to him to protect Flynne from any backlash from that event.

The character of Flynne is well developed and I found her down to earth and likable. She is very family oriented and ethical. She sticks to her morals even when large amounts of money are waved in front of her face. My other favourite character is Conner, a long time friend who is ex-military with multiple crippling war injuries. He's in your face, does what he needs to with no apologies.

This story made me ponder the role of technology in society. Change used to be a long time coming, but now, technology seems to change almost over night. Download a file, a bam, with a 3D printer you can have a new product in hours. Who's to decide/determine whether this is good or bad.

All things considered, I enjoyed the story line and had no trouble believing the bridging of the time differences, I only wish that it had been easier to read and understand the actual wording.
This was good but a bit tiresome at times. Since Anthony Burgess did A Clockwork Orange, many authors have tried to create their own language with various levels of success. This one isn't quite as successful as other Gibson books.

About 3/4 of the way through I got tired of reading to the point of almost abandoning it. If I hadn't bought it instead of borrow it from the library, I probably would have.

I did finish it and it was a decent ending, not overwhelming but decent.
"The Peripheral" is not an easy read but it's also not as difficult as it appears. Gibson is having fun playing with temporal juxtapositions (not only in the main story but also in how he describes a scene) and words. He is a thoughtful and intelligent writer so what may appear obscure in his words is actually concrete ... but you'll have to have a very big vocabulary or have a dictionary nearby.

This book is plain fun to read. And I haven't even talked about the story.