Virtual Possabilities (Idoru - William Gibson)

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Product:	Idoru - William Gibson
Date:	12/08/00 (12 review reads)
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This is one of the best book I've ever read.Idoru is deep, virtual/real, and it's firmly intertwined with my own ideas of our near-future.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.I found the charactrers all well defined and appealing, especially Laney, a sort of everyman who ends up in the middle of a lot of weird stuff.
And of course, there's Gibson's writing, powerful and at times even hypnotic. Each chapter reads like a story unto itself, but they do all move towards a clear resolution.

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