All Tomorrow's Parties

By: William Gibson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend, Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is, although it will eventually involve his former girlfriend, a Taoist assassin, the secrets Laney has been hacking out of the depths of DatAmerica, the CEO of the PR firm that secretly runs the world, and the apocalyptic technological transformation of, well, everything.

William Gibson's new novel, set in the soon-to-be-fact world of Virtual Light and Idoru, completes a stunning, brilliantly imagined trilogy about the post-Net world.

©1999 William Gibson (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Best production, great listening experience

Thank you for the great narration, Jonathan Davis. I can't image how you accomplished such a great listen; is very enjoyable.
I ended up enjoying this book the most of the trilogy. I've read "All Tomorrow's Parties" a couple of times, but listening to this version is much better.
William Gibson has a great talent for describing the past, present and future (all at the same time) with a great tongue in cheek style.

Interesting to Observe the Present as Imagined in the Past

Gibson became a much better writer in the last ten years. This book is clunky and shows its age at times, but I share Gibsons interested in the interaction between tech and culture in the near future, and while this isn’t the best imagined or crafted cyber-punk story, it has some well done scenes and gets technically, thematically stronger in the final chapters. Recommended for any CP fan, but imperfect and not as good as later Gibson works IMO.

Lucid prescience

Colin Laney working from inside the inside of the inside of a Tokyo subway station finds the red thread that leads to our future. Pulling it ever so gently he contrives to manipulate the manipulator and find a way away from "rich powerful corrupt men" seducing us into a culturally homogonized nightmare.

You Must Love Sci Fi

What would have made All Tomorrow's Parties better?

If you are sci fi fan, then this is for you. I am not a Sci Fi fan, but I was hoping the modern Sci Fi perhaps detective theme would be ok for me. Another reviewer could not get through this book. I am at ch 12 and giving up. J.D. has made the characters wonderful as usual, but I just can't seem to pick up the tread of this story.

What was most disappointing about William Gibson’s story?

This author/genre is not for me, so this is not the fault of the author. The other reviewers love this story, so buy if you are a fan.

Have you listened to any of Jonathan Davis’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I love Jonathan Davis's reading style. See Sandra Brown's Mean Streak. I try to buy as many of this readers' works as I can, but I am just suffering with some of the reads if I am not a fan of the author.
J.D. claim to fame is Sci Fi and anything latin based. He is terrific!

Any additional comments?

note: I use 1.25 x new speed as it helps match an author's intent of the story line.

DIFFICULT NOT TO FINISH ONCE BEGUN, 1ST RATE!

Loved it, not as dazzling as Neuromancer, but much more finely constructed. A tale of a perfectly believable American favela, intricate and independent.