Pattern Recognition

I ran across an abandoned copy of “Pattern Recognition” at one of my favorite coffee haunts. After determining that it indeed was an orphan, I adopted it and brought it home. It has become one of my all time favorite novels and I have been passing it around to all of my friends. Even those who don't necessarily read SciFi have enjoyed the novel.

Gibson's writing, for me, is compelling...but I always feel like I am intuitively “missing” something. It hovers right there at the edge of my consciousness, but I can never quite grasp it. Sort of how I felt about calculus for a long time. I was fascinated by the complexity of the subject, but always felt my understanding of it was VERY superficial. Finally, during the third time I took the class, understanding hit me like a bolt of lightning. I want to read “Pattern Recognition” two or three more times so I can come to that sort of comprehension with it.