05-04-2010, 06:43 PM
I have a ton of books to read, but instead I grabbed something old off the shelf, in this case William Gibson's "Biochips". The plot didn't seem familiar, so maybe I hadn't read it after all and just thought I had read it. It's a kind of cyberpunk mystery, and Mr. Gibson seems to think that the readers are clever enough to solve the mysteries in the book. Unfortunately, I'm the kind of reader who doesn't get hints when it comes to reading fiction, and needs to be slapped around the face with solutions and analogies to see them. Still, I suspect half of the time Mr. Gibson himself had no idea what was going on. All in all, "biochips" is reasonably entertaining but nothing earth-shaking.