Idoru (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

William Gibson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: Minotauro (January 1999)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8445072773
• ISBN-13: 978-8445072776
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,392,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Treading water -- an illusion of parity with the sea", March 26, 2005

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Michael K. Smith (South Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Idoru (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Rei toei, the "idoru" (the Japanese pronunciation of "idol"), is a Tokyo pop star who exists only as a software agent -- until now. Chia McKenzie, fourteen-year-old Seattle fan of the rock group Lo/Rez, has heard a rumor that lead singer/philosopher Rez plans to marry the idoru and her online buddies arrange to send her to Tokyo on a rescue mission. The other branch of the converging plot features Colin Laney, whose talent is perceiving and interpreting the patterns people create in the datastream, and who is hired by Rez's security chief to investigate the same rumor. This not-quite-sequel is set in the same future as _Virtual Light,_ with Yamazaki as a major supporting character and Rydel in the background, but the focus is on Laney's attempts to deal with an extremely strange world and on Chia's coping with the real Japan and the virtual Walled City. Again, Chia is a marvelous and perfectly believable character. It might be surprising that someone as technophilic as Gibson is so successful in painting portraits of adolescent girls, but I suspect he's incapable of hitting a wrong note. He just keeps getting better and better.

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cinco estrellas por la novela, una por la traducción, September 30, 2003

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"saurio" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Idoru (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Idoru es una de las mejores novelas de Gibson, junto con Luz Virtual y Todas las fiestas de mañana. Supongo que otros comentarios les aclararán más en este punto.
Lo que quería decir se refiere a esta edición en particular, la traducción al castellano que hizo Manuel Figueroa. Y es que es DE LO PEOR.
Está llena de errores, decisiones equivocadas, distracciones, ripios y otras "delicias" que la hacen muy difícil de leer.
Una pena. Si pueden, leanla en idioma original. Y si no, protesten como yo.