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  All Tomorrow's Parties

   • s******j@e***.**o.com
     16/11/1999 00:00:000 UTC

     The tie-up volume of Gibson's "Bridge" trilogy is the best written.

     Enormously sleek, funny, singing prose. It made me think of Lieber's

     _The Silver Eggheads_, which had -- as the main big-money media --

     "word wooze", fiction so good it made people drunk.

     The story . . . well, it's OK. A bit like _Mona Lisa Overdrive_, with

     people and cyberspacial forces rushing together toward society-shaking

     events. Everything would be dandy despite this retread'ness, except for

     a rather uncharacteristic deus ex machina and a final scene that's

     either really lame, or extremely subtle and opaque. I mean, WHAT'S WITH

     THE WATCHES, DUDE? TELL US MORE!

     Anyway. I got to hear Gibson read two chapters of this. If an audio-

     book with him as the reader comes out, I'll buy it, because his snotty

     Southern / Canadian drawl is perfect for the job. And maybe this would
     give

     him a chance to explain the DAMN WATCHES.

     Stefan

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