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A man, having lost his researcher's job with a build-em-up-and-knock-em-down celebrity TV show, applies for a new job with a very mysterious organisation. Meanwhile, a young female member of a band's fan club sets off to investigate rumours that one of the band's stars is planning to marry a synthetic personality, the Idoru of the title.
I've not had much chance to read in the last few weeks, and my first attempt to read this book foundered. Gibson's prose has never been particularly easy for me to follow, and reading it 3-4 pages at a time at 1-2 day intervals was a recipe for disaster - but this was my fault, not the author's. So when I had a couple of long rail journeys last weekend, I started over, and this time I managed to hit it running.
Once things start to gel, it's a good read, with twists and turn all over the place, building to a gripping conclusion. That said, Gibson leaves a few gaps to be filled by the reader's imagination (not necessarily a bad thing) and the ending is a little vague. I guess I'll wait and see how book three adds to it.
[note: this is the second book in a loosely-linked trilogy, coming between
Virtual Light and
All Tomorrow's Parties]
