Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.  Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.  Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life... (show more)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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It's a hit!

A well-crafted finale to the Sprawl trilogy that began with the excellent genre-defining "Neuromancer" and kind of lost momentum with "Count Zero".... (show more)

 
 
by Pete
No, it's a flop!

Couldn't get into it - I loved Pattern Recognition, but this one didn't hold my interest in the same. Plus, the cover sort of freaked me out.

 
 
by Carrie
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    I was actually pleasantly surprised when reading this book. I’ve been a bit disappointed with a lot Gibson books; as he seems to use many cheap narrative tricks. Maybe it’s because I’m not that interested in storylines or characters, but I just feel that it’d be better as a movie.

    This book is plagued by of the few things that I found irritating about his other books – intertwining plotlines, trying to force suspense, seducing readers with technophilia, and attempts to rap up loose ends… it... (show more)

     
     
    by Lemmy on Jan 04, 2010 at 10:32PM

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    I guess I wasn't fully prepared for this book. "Mona Lisa Overdrive" is the third in Gibson's "Sprawl" trilogy, but it's been over 15 years since I read the first two and I didn't remember all the details that would help to get through this.

    I'm not sure I understood all of it, definitely not much about the combination of voodoo and high tech as it was in Angie's head or the Aleph device.

    This continues Gibson's futuristic, fairly dirty, gritty dystopian sort of future ... (show more)

     
     
    by Kevin on Aug 27, 2009 at 03:07PM

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