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Pattern Recognition
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Pattern Recognition
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Summary
Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'.
Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself.
William Gibson's audiobook is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world and life in (the former) USSR.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 10-10-21
Compelling story, mixed performance
OK, you don't need a book review. You want to know about the performance. It's... mixed news. The pacing is good: the weird sense of displacement comes through strongly, the narrative voice is good and in some ways I'm enjoying this reading better than when I read the novel myself. On the other hand, Price really struggles to convince with her male voices, and even more frustratingly her accents are *very* hit-and-miss. If you choose audiobooks for accessibility reasons and so don't have an alternative, I'd say, go for it - the reading is good enough to enjoy the book (which is excellent). If you're a text reader looking for great audio performances as a bonus, maybe this isn't for you. YMMV.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Mandu Kate Reid
- 18-02-23
Underwhelming
Reckon I would’ve enjoyed it more if I’d read rather than listened to it.
Story didn’t seem to be about pattern recognition as billed. Improbable plot, flimsy characters, irritating linguistic quirks, too much product placement.
Performance poor, especially the accents and the ‘rendering’ of the main protagonist.
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