I recently read #WiliamGibson’s Pattern Recognition, after seeing an article in the #LondonReview that made a case for it. I can see the case: the writing is exciting for the most part, until it is dragged into that dread sink of genre fiction, the need for a resolution of a problem. I’m down with solutions, I’m a great fan of pacing out London under the shadow of Sherlock Holmes and finding the criminal, but I’m also a fan of things blowing up in your face. https://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-heart-has-its-reasons.html

Started the binge watch of #ThePeripheral last night; three episodes down, five to go. I've read the book so was looking forward to this, and I like what I see so far even if the London-based storyline seems to have taken a lot of liberties with the #WiliamGibson plot (to say the least). But, it looks fabulous, has decent pacing, is really fleshing out the characters, and it's #SciFi so I'm always going to be happy about that anyway.

But that eye scene in episode one... urgh.

#Peripheral #TV

Looks like we're doing #7Books that made us who we are. I don't know if they *made* me, but:

The Illuminatus Trilogy, #RobertAntonWilson & #Robert Shea

Cannery Row, #JohnSteinbeck

Dharma Bums, #JackKerouac

Pattern Recognition, #WiliamGibson

Pentimento, #LillianHellman

The Big Sleep, #RaymondChandler

A Prayer for Owen Meany, #JohnIrving