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Ian’s book 12: Spook Country by William Gibson

Dec 28, ’08 3:17 PM

William Gibson’s been on an interesting voyage from science fiction to thrillers, while keeping the same tone and subject matter. The world’s been catching up to him, and now it seems to have overtaken.
Spook Country feels like a period piece. It was set in the exact present when it came out, full of details about [...]

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Ian’s book 1: Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton

Feb 9, ’08 8:22 PM

More than a month into the year and I hadn’t finished a single book, so I picked up something I was pretty sure I was going to like to assuage the inner voices.
It’s fairly appropriate really, as where The Ipcress File (book 9, 2007) was about class, Funeral in Berlin is about guilt. German guilt [...]

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