Book 82: "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson
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kittiwakeCayce has hung her Buzz Rickson's over the back of her chair, and now she catches Dorotea looking at it.
The Rickson's is a fanatical museum-grade replica of a U.S. MA-1 flying jacket, as purely functional and iconic a garment as the previous century produced. Dorotea's slow burn is being accelerated, Cayce suspects, by her perception that Cayce's MA-1 trumps any attempt at minimalism, the Rickson's having been created by Japanese obsessives driven by passions having nothing at all to do with anything remotely like fashion.
Unlike Gibson's other novels, this one is set in the present day and isn't actually science-fiction. It is a thriller about a woman who is employed by the head of a marketing agency to track down the source of a mysterious film that is appearing piece by piece on the internet. Cayce is a fascinating character, a cool-hunter whose career involves tracking down the next 'in' thing and using her extreme sensitivity to branding to say yes or no to companies' new logos.
I loved this book and wouldn't like to spoil the story for you, so I won't say anything else, except that Muji is one of my favourite shops as well as Cayce's.
The Rickson's is a fanatical museum-grade replica of a U.S. MA-1 flying jacket, as purely functional and iconic a garment as the previous century produced. Dorotea's slow burn is being accelerated, Cayce suspects, by her perception that Cayce's MA-1 trumps any attempt at minimalism, the Rickson's having been created by Japanese obsessives driven by passions having nothing at all to do with anything remotely like fashion.
Unlike Gibson's other novels, this one is set in the present day and isn't actually science-fiction. It is a thriller about a woman who is employed by the head of a marketing agency to track down the source of a mysterious film that is appearing piece by piece on the internet. Cayce is a fascinating character, a cool-hunter whose career involves tracking down the next 'in' thing and using her extreme sensitivity to branding to say yes or no to companies' new logos.
I loved this book and wouldn't like to spoil the story for you, so I won't say anything else, except that Muji is one of my favourite shops as well as Cayce's.
