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Summary: Great book for Advanced Readers
Review: I had put off reading this book for two years because of the first two chapters. Gibson's style and literary prose are tricky to maneuver around. The plot itself if interesting, and I found it hard to put down after chapter three, but for computer techies, it might seem a little whacked. I would recommend it if your interested in not only technical cyberstuff but also an interesting view of society and mankind
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Summary: A case of the "Emperor's VIRTUAL new clothes"
Review: If you need an indicator of how overrated Gibson and this book are, you only need to look down this list of reviews. Someone even says Gibson is "Perhaps the best 20th century writer!" Style has truly triumphed over substance. If you demand a bit more from a book than cliches, poor plotting and characterisation, try something else
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Summary: Neuromancer takes no prisoners
Review: I have just begun reading Neuromancer again. I read it twice in quick succession the year it was published in paperback. What astonised me at the time was a complete and detailed vision of a world which was so feasable in its obvious completness to the author but which by the lack of explanation of the detail, challenged *me* to grapple with the genesis of some fantastic technologies. In part it was this experience at 20 which cemented my determination to work in the future.
On reflection I have no recollection of the plot, the characters or the resolution. So perhaps these are the weak links. Whilst it is a seminal work from a science fiction perspective, the last thirteen years have delivered some technologies that are much closer to those Gibson *invented*, so I doubt the experiece will be anywhere near so profound for the first time reader today.
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Summary: Vision, but not much else.
Review: The plot was weak, really weak. Unfortunately, the characters were even weaker. They weren't that likeable, worse they just weren't very interesting either. It doesn't compare(in quality) to other cyperpunk books that I've read at all. Its one redeeming quality is that it was first
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Summary: Holy drug-addled dystopia, Batman!
Review: "Hey, Carmine, it's like this: Drugstore cowboy looking to get whacked gets an offer he can't refuse and a chance for the big score. Says he's a made guy, but he spends all his time high as a kite or fondling computers. His bionic girlfriend does the heavy lifting. But everybody in the book keeps low-life company."
"What about Heat?"
"Make me laugh. Cops get whacked by artificial intelligence. Girlfriend packs a sidearm that shoots any ammo she wants. And when drops get dicey, drug boy goes temporarily brain dead."
"Whaddaya mean, TEMPORARY brain dead?"
"Yo, Carmine, that's why it's called science fiction."
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Summary: Not a Hacker book
Review: Some have mentioned the lack of computer realism in this book. I believe Gibson himself has said he really doesn't know that much about comuters and that's not the strength of the book. It lies in the storytelling, plot and characters. Great book, not for choir-boys and girls
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Summary: ...And Cyberspace was born.
Review: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
So begins William Gibson's prophetic and apocryphal novel NEUROMANCER, the first in his SPRAWL Trilogy and arguably the most important Science Fiction novel of the Century. In a single, mind-bending work, Gibson propelled an entire generation into a new era of information perception, an era that has since woven itself strand-by-strand into the global information nexus we call the World Wide Web. It begins with Case, a young and bitter cyberspace cowboy prowling the neon-lit streets of Chiba City, in search of his lost identity. Robbed of his talent for working the Matrix as a data thief and cyberspace pirate, his life is a bleak and desolate journey towards self-destruction. Until the day a mirror-eyed assassin offers him a second chance. Suddenly Case is an unwitting pawn in a game whose board stretches from Chiba to the Sprawl to an orbiting pleasure colony populated by Ninja clones and Zion-worshipping Rastafarian spacers. The job: to hack the unhackable. To break the ICE around an Artificial Intelligence and release it from its own hardwired mind. But at every turn Case is haunted by the shadows of his own dark past, and pursued by a faceless enemy whose very presence can kill. Ironically, William Gibson tapped out the wonders of NEUROMANCER on a manual typewriter, and was certain it was fated for the Out Of Print stack or a quiet cult following. But now, over ten years later and still in print, it has become a kind of cultural landmark in a sea of Information; a chrome-and-silicon avatar of everything from the World Wide Web to Virtual Reality. NEUROMANCER must not be explained or related; it must be experienced, taken in through the pores and rolled against the tongue like electric adrenaline. And there is only one way to do so. Pick up a copy. And jack in. Clay Douglas Major
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: For me, this book defines cyberpunk. The prose and concepts are dazzling. If you try to figure everything out, you're in for trouble-just surf it and go with the changes and you'll have a great time! The audio version, narrated by the author, is also terrific, in my opinion
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Summary: Technologically suspenseful
Review: Gibson's mix of technology and suspense is masterful. His characters are well thought out and the stories are very involved. I thought his portrayal of Chase was intriguing. A very interesting read
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Summary: Faint praise
Review: More atmosphere than substance. The future can already be seen to very different from what this so-called "visionary" author "predicts", so those eagerly awaiting a cyberpunk future can now return to asking "Do you want fries with that?"
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