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A review by rossbm
The Peripheral by William Gibson
3.0
(read as French physical book)
I started reading this after watching the first season of the show on Amazon Prime. I enjoyed the show and thought the book would be good also. The book is good, though quite different from the show and probably not as good.
I would say that about 80% of the book and the show is the same. The basic premise is the same and about 80% of the characters are the same. However, while the story starts off the same, the way things unfold quickly diverge between the book and the show. The ending of the show doesn't make a huge amount of sense and felt a bit rushed, while the book's ending was fairly anticlimactic, having built up to a certain event that wrapped things up fairly neatly. The book does have a interesting epilogue, so I will read the second book in the trilogy.
Reading the book in French was a bit tough. Hard to know if I didn't recognize a word because of my lack of vocabulary, or if it was a very rare word or word made up by the author. I appreciated the short chapters though.
I started reading this after watching the first season of the show on Amazon Prime. I enjoyed the show and thought the book would be good also. The book is good, though quite different from the show and probably not as good.
I would say that about 80% of the book and the show is the same. The basic premise is the same and about 80% of the characters are the same. However, while the story starts off the same, the way things unfold quickly diverge between the book and the show. The ending of the show doesn't make a huge amount of sense and felt a bit rushed, while the book's ending was fairly anticlimactic, having built up to a certain event that wrapped things up fairly neatly. The book does have a interesting epilogue, so I will read the second book in the trilogy.
Reading the book in French was a bit tough. Hard to know if I didn't recognize a word because of my lack of vocabulary, or if it was a very rare word or word made up by the author. I appreciated the short chapters though.