Thoughts on All Tomorrow’s Parties

I have read quite a bit of the book so far and I must say it is interesting. The style that William Gibson writes in is very unique.

During lecture, Dr. Ogden spoke about the title, in particular “tomorrow” refers to the near future. Therefore, readers know that the book may be about something that may happen in the future. Dr. Ogden also mentioned that Gibson believes that Coupland has failed and that people remained selfish. This book shows what the world looks like according to Gibson’s ideas. However, Gibson agrees with Coupland but he thinks that there is a different solution. According to lecture, Gibson sees fragmented humans and says that humanity has failed. Gibson tries to explain that a non-human force has taken over instead. For greater understanding, during lecture we were shown a clip from a movie which is somewhat representative of the novel.

Overall, I think that this novel is a great example of what our society can look like. Gibson helps readers become more aware about the world and about humanity. At first, it may be difficult to grasp the main ideas of the novel but just seeing the video clip even helped me visualize the novel better. I think that after reading this novel it would be interesting to compare it to Coupland’s Hey Nostradamus!