kellymce's reviews
707 reviews

As everyone has noted, the characters in this book are intelligent, complex, and believable. However, as a small note, I especially enjoyed the minor diplomatic analysis of emails.

London effectively describes our ambivalent relationship to booze. (For example, he gets tanked on election day after voting for women's suffrage...which he did because women would force prohibition.) The confusing mix of glorification and disapproval was strangely satisfying. It's all remarkably--maybe depressingly--relevant. London's insistence that he is not an alcoholic echoes what I've heard from plenty of acquaintances.

I enjoyed it while I read it, but I already can't tell you really anything about it.

I read it on the bus during my first week of classes, and now I think of Chiba City every time the chimes go off to warn that the bus doors are closing. I hope that one day I run into William Gibson on Translink, so I can tell him that in person.