Comments on: books http://coruskate.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/books-3/ -- fuel for the fire -- Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:28:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Katherine http://coruskate.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/books-3/#comment-78 Katherine Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:25:25 +0000 http://coruskate.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/books-3/#comment-78 Her name was Angie and it was in Mona Lisa Overdrive that she got the laser pen haircut. That was after she got sober and was starting to work for Sense/Net again. In Count Zero she's just a little girl. But yeah, he does have a thing for haircuts. There's something specific going on in PR and SC with the haircut (and in PR, a wardrobe update) because it's on Blue Ant's dime. I think it's his way of getting his characters into the coolest clothing and hair w/o having them be rich and out of touch. With Angie, she was rich but we'd already seen her rise from the street. I highly recommend <i>Pattern Recognition</i>, btw. Her name was Angie and it was in Mona Lisa Overdrive that she got the laser pen haircut. That was after she got sober and was starting to work for Sense/Net again. In Count Zero she’s just a little girl. But yeah, he does have a thing for haircuts.

There’s something specific going on in PR and SC with the haircut (and in PR, a wardrobe update) because it’s on Blue Ant’s dime. I think it’s his way of getting his characters into the coolest clothing and hair w/o having them be rich and out of touch. With Angie, she was rich but we’d already seen her rise from the street.

I highly recommend Pattern Recognition, btw.

]]> By: nancois http://coruskate.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/books-3/#comment-77 nancois Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:53:47 +0000 http://coruskate.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/books-3/#comment-77 He's always had a thing with haircuts. In <i>Count Zero</i>, practically the first thing Andrea (Andrea? No, Carly? Crap.) does after getting the payoff from brain-in-a-jar guy to find the boxmaker is to go get her hair cut, with some sort of laser pen that's on the cutting edge of expensive haircuts, IIRC. Then she buys a leather jacket and a shirt for her friend, who might actually be the one named Andrea. I guess he wants his heroines to have nice hair. I stopped reading Gibson after <i>Mona Lisa Overdrive</i>. He’s always had a thing with haircuts. In Count Zero, practically the first thing Andrea (Andrea? No, Carly? Crap.) does after getting the payoff from brain-in-a-jar guy to find the boxmaker is to go get her hair cut, with some sort of laser pen that’s on the cutting edge of expensive haircuts, IIRC. Then she buys a leather jacket and a shirt for her friend, who might actually be the one named Andrea. I guess he wants his heroines to have nice hair.

I stopped reading Gibson after Mona Lisa Overdrive.

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