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Spook Country
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Spook Country - a gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, best-selling author of Neuromancer.
In New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror, and across the city, an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's movements. Meanwhile in LA, journalist Hollis Henry is on the trail of Bobby Chombo, who appears to know too much about military systems for his own good. With Bobby missing and the trail cold, Hollis digs deeper and is drawn into the final moves of a chilling game played out by men with old scores to settle....
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"A cool, sophisticated thriller." (Financial Times)
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- Kai
- 01-10-23
Getbthe book and read it yourself
I have read this book right back when it was published and I loved it.
The material has stood the test of time and still makes an intriguing story. The fractal descriptions of Gibson's never cease to amaze. The amount of background research makes these books very very believable, terrifyingly real, and utterly marvelous.
By this stage it pretty much is clear that I think Gibson as one of the most important writers of Gen-X, perhaps even of our time.
This said, what I would very much like to see, is a version of this book read by another narrator.
Ms Price is not bad, but she isn't able to clearly differentiate between the myriad of characters the story throws our way. There are several threads to the story with a number of characters on each. With the somewhat constricted narration the task of following these simply becomes a bit harder to follow than need be.
I would love to see Audible offer this series of books with an alternate narrator, as they have done with some of John Scalzi's books. You have a female and a male narrator on offer and you pick either or both. I got both.
Now in summary. It is a well written book in a well constructed world with interesting characters that should keep you interested to say the least. Unfortunately due to the narration it didn't. I kinda gave up on following at some point, even if as a completionist personality I had to finish it. Wish I'd like it moore.
My advice... Get the book and read it yourself.
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- Horace
- 04-01-23
Like all Gibson, disturbingly credible.
If you are an aficionado, you don’t need my review. If you are not yet an initiate this book (albeit not the first in its sequence) isn’t a bad place to start. Your neurons will love you.
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- Kipper Jones
- 27-03-23
Brilliant material let down by narration
I love everything William Gibson, I read Pattern Recognition some years ago and this "sequel" is also interesting and well-written. Unfortunately the narrator for this series is not up to snuff. She reads robotically and without dynamism of cadence, lacking intonation and emphasis. Unfortuantely her accents are very bad too and there are characters in this story with various different North American accents and also South American characters too, while the narrator is English. When these characters speak the dialogue is delivered very slowly and deliberately, with a monotonous tone, every character speaking in this same way. A bad accent could be forgiveable but the delivery makes the characters twice as robotic-sounding as the narration does.
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- Sober Man's Secret
- 07-04-24
Such an amazing tale
ruined by some of the poorest narration I've heard. If you're able to read this then please do so. if audio is a must then I'd suggest getting a friend to read it to you.
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