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Summary: Interesting book. hard to read for me
Review: I found Gibson book Igoru hard to read and difficult to follow in every jumping detail he continually introduces into every new scene. On the other hand his scene settings and atmospheres he creates are very vivid and cinematic. It seems that he writes movies scenes rather than articulate literal chapters and paragraphs. I particularly enjoyed the way he invents new words even if at times I find it difficult to follow what he exactly means by them. Probably the first and last novel I read by him.
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Summary: Idoru
Review: I have never even checked in with what others have said about a particular book, until now. I agree with nearly every work that Joshua said in his review, so I won't restate the details. I just got more and more bogged down until I was thinking it was just me. I love Gibson's other works and read a lot of SF most on the themes of cyberspace, technology, sci fi culture, but this was certainly a disappointment on many levels. Now approximately 7/8 done, I will finish, but it won't go up there with the best of the best.
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Summary: William Gibson's best yet
Review: I own all of Gibson's books and have read and re-read every single one of them. WG was the first cyberpunk author I hooked into but not my favorite. Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson imho have a tighter control over their writing and a better flow. Check out Holy Fire and Snow Crash. BS tends to go crazy and lose you in midstream, but he gets you back sure enough. NS is just awesome. Imagine the world 50, no 20 years from now as he envisions it. I think the word you're looking for is Wow.
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Summary: Pleasant, Thought Provoking
Review: I think that of the reviews I scanned I'm fairly odd in that this is my first Gibson. I've read all about Gibson's books, criticism, reviews, fanatic praise-- and I find it interesting that Idoru really stands up against the pressure of the expectations.A rock star (Rez) who has been just slightly out of step with the modern culture falls in love with an avatar of the modern culture-- the virtual reality idoru star Rei Toei. In the persons of Chia and Colin Laney we see Rez's fans, handlers, and enemies descend on Tokyo-- determined to find out what's going on. The book is all about virtual realities-- cities in the cracks of the computer systems, virtual stars who are becoming real, Kafka theme bars, and fans who meet in virtual clubhouses with constructed images. I said it was about the realities themselves, but really it seems to be about how the characters struggle and cope with the layers around them. Very well-written. In places, I found some plot points to be a little distracting. I wished other areas were more fully developed. But Gibson works with a clear, straight-forward elegance and ultimately a kind of wonderful sweetness. Good read.
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Summary: Very clever indeed...
Review: I've always been a little embarassed of my taste for science fiction, but this is brilliant on its own. Think of Rez as Bono (one of Gibson's good friends in real life) and you get a more timely taste of the story. Add to that a more literary focus on the difference between the concepts of Celebrity and Conspicuous Anonymity, and this book can become a stepping stone to a thesis on public idolatry behaviour at the end of the 20th century. I enjoy books, but rarely get incredibly excited at reading them. This is one of the few exceptions to the rule.
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Summary: Cinco estrellas por la novela, una por la traducción
Review: Idoru es una de las mejores novelas de Gibson, junto con Luz Virtual y Todas las fiestas de mañana. Supongo que otros comentarios les aclararán más en este punto.
Lo que quería decir se refiere a esta edición en particular, la traducción al castellano que hizo Manuel Figueroa. Y es que es DE LO PEOR.
Está llena de errores, decisiones equivocadas, distracciones, ripios y otras "delicias" que la hacen muy difícil de leer.
Una pena. Si pueden, leanla en idioma original. Y si no, protesten como yo.
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Summary: This Ain't No Neuromancer
Review: Idoru has a decent setup, and ok characters. What damns it is the worst ending ever. Don't invest time in this joke of a book.
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Summary: Simple, witty, and fun
Review: Idoru is my favorite book of Gibson's. Unlike the more modern writing style in Neuromancer, the writing in Idoru is direct and clear. The plot is simple but fast paced, the characters likeable, the setting and ideas purely Gibson. The ending, of course, is excellent. Definitely worth a few bucks and a few hours.
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Summary: OK light reading, but little besides an interesting setting
Review: IDORU is the first novel by William Gibson that I have read and I thought it was a decent piece of light reading. It kept me occupied while I sat in airports over this past holiday season and was interesting enough to pass time. However, IDORU offers little plot, and is more an exploration of Gibson's future world and technology than a coherent story. I was pretty disappointed, having thought that Gibson's books were classics of science-fiction for more than a pretty setting. Nonetheless, IDORU was sufficiently entertaining.
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Summary: Gibson in transition
Review: Idoru is typical Gibson with his post-modern strengths and weaknesses. There is probably no contemporary writer who packs so much detail into his prose; one can read him over and over again and endlessly pick out elements that one didn't notice before. On the other hand, his characterization is weak. His characters are kind of like cutouts: they don't as characters rise to the level of his vision of the not too distant future. This in my judgement is true of all of Gibson's work, even his most recent text, the title of which escapes me. Perhaps, in fairness to Gibson, characterization is beside the point. Characters and personalities are absorbed into the sheer sweep of post-modern life, in which the corporatization of technogical innovation stamps out -- or nearly stamps out -- the cult of the individual. Although I enjoyed Idoru, I feel that it doesn't measure up to the cyberpunk master's earlier work. The same vigor just isn't here. Perhaps it is a post-success syndrome. Success for some writers means that the initial motivation and energy just is no longer there. Hopefully, this is just a phase that Gibson is going through. That being said, even inferior Gibson is just on a different level than most than the work of other writers of speculative fiction. Here is an author who combines a coherent vision of what the near future looks like with a truly grand, pop-literate, post-modernist style. I will continue to devour Gibson's work and look forward to each new text. I would however recommend that those of you who are new to his work to start with the earlier novels.
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