Its been about 2 days, and I’ve been watching the results roll in on my review of Spook Country. It really is amazing what the world will buy when you make the right suggestion. Hordes of idiots are already hurling tomatoes into their blogs in an attempt to catch a piece of the Gibson pie in the sky. Maybe they think they are being classy or somehow refuting my comment. I am not retracting it. Spook Country is a steaming pile, and I know why and how it was written.

My best recommendation for Gibson, who at this point is probably distressed and annoyed with me, is change your pen name, terminate your contract with Putnam, retire, and invest in a vineyard or a pizza franchise. Don’t ever write the third installment for Putnam, because you will not be satisfied with it either. Instead, create something new.

And for god’s sake, stop touring. The fans don’t deserve you. They are a bunch of ill favored hippocrites, with their ipods close at hand, and their daddy’s volvos and vw’s. Do you really want to go down as selling out to their sensibilities? When did you stop being a philosopher and start being a prophet of nil? The truth is, and always has been that there is and will be a form to the future, with or without humankind.

Let the people burn, they have mandated their own consumptiveness, and will buy whatever they are manipulated into buying. I hear a good bottle of wine goes for upwards of $300.00 in New York.