Jonathan McCalmont slams Gibson’s Spook Country:
I found the protagonists to be hateful, the plot uninteresting and the obsessions of the writer to be as short-sighted as they are witless. Spook Country is a deeply stupid book that thinks it is clever, it is full of deeply stupid characters who think they are clever and it will be adored by legions of fans who are deeply stupid but who think they are clever. Spook Country is Dallas for geeks.
I haven’t read SC yet, but a lot of the things he mentions about Gibson’s previous novel Patter Recognition ring true.