Not Spook-tacular

I've still been on a reading binge, although I'm not reviewing as fast as I've been reading. One of the latest books I've finished is William Gibson's Spook Country. It took me two tries to get through the book; the first time I stalled out about a third of the way in. It's not that the book was bad, it's just that... I've read it before. From the same author, even.

There are some new elements introduced (GPS!, Free running! Volapuk!), but the underlying structure is still there - enigmatic figure with ubiquitous wealth hires artistic type to find the source of some ephemerally obscure phenomenon. Same plot structure as Pattern Recognition (same wealthy eccentric, even), and it even hearkens back to one plot line in Count Zero. The major difference between Spook Country and Pattern Recognition is that the former goes back to the interwoven three-character POVs that Gibson used more in the Sprawl trilogy.

I think if I had read Spook Country before I had read Pattern Recognition, I probably would have liked it more. As it stands though, it is an adequate book but not an outstanding one.