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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Mid-American Frontier: Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison 1800-1811
Amazon sells this book for $65 but charged me twice that.When I brought it to their attention I was told to return the book and I was forced to pay the shipping. ... Read more

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Rei Toei is the beautiful, mysterious (and entirely virtual) media star adored by all Japan: the idoru. Rez, one half of the band Lo/Rez, says he is going to marry her, but how can he if she doesn't physically exist. William Gibson has also written "Neuromancer" and "Virtual Light". ... Read more

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Converging details
Idoru follows the stories of 14 year old Chia, who has been sent to Japan by her chapter of the Lo Rez fan club to investigate a marriage rumor, and of Laney, whose ADD allows him to focus focus and spot patterns that show more probable outcomes and who has been hired to focus focus on the marriage rumor.Their stories converge around the rumor that rock star Rez plans to marry Rei Toei, an idoru or machine generated character.

Chia quickly becomes mixed up in some type of smuggling operation when she carries a bag through customs for someone.She tries hard to find out as little as possible what is being smuggled.As she tries to find out whatever she can about Rez's intention to marry, she realizes that someone is looking for her and is soon much more interested in safely evading the smugglers.

Laney's story contains many flashbacks that show his motivations.Because he can spot patterns in reams of data about a person, he once realized that someone he was analyzing as part of his job was going to commit suicide.His attempts to get into a cleaner type of analysis motivate most of his actions.

A big positive was the way the stories came together.Although Rei Toei is only background most of the time, she appears and when she does she seems to have been doing more along the way.Little details fall into place, maybe something like details falling together for one of Laney's "nodal points."It is also nice that most of the characters are fleshed out.

A negative was that this book dragged and only got going for me near the end.I'm not such a fan of Gibson's writing style, so if you like his style, then this may not be a problem for you. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more