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Summary: Doesn't quite live up to the hype.
Review: It took me several years to get around to reading this book, and then it took me several months to get through it. Not to say this is a bad book or anything. I think it was the characters that kind of killed it for me. The main character was just lame and only a handful of the characters were all that interesting. I just didn't feel anything for any of them. There were times when the story was hard to follow and there was even a character whose purpose I'm still not sure of. Gibson does, however, create a complex and absorbing future. His attention to detail really helps the reader visualize his dark and sureal vision of what is to come. If his characterization were better and his story less muddled, I could see myself calling this the best scifi story I ever read. Instead it is only above average.
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Summary: Great beginning for a Cyberbooks collection
Review: I would recommend this book for those of you who are looking to jump into the world of computer sci/fi. Gibson writes the novel for any readers, not just the computer literate. Only after this should Stephenson's Snow Crash be picked up.
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Summary: Totally awesome
Review: It is a great read for any sci-fi fan. pick it up and you probably won't let it go till you are done with it.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Neuromancer is one of the few SF books that ever drew me into its world. I was fascinated from the first page, and ten pages in I WANTED to live in this world - I wanted to be a part of this universe, to personally KNOW the protagonist Case, to run against "an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence". I wanted to believe every word I read. The book *is* a bit technical if you're not used to the cyber-world, but it is also easy to understand if you re-read each paragraph or chapter as you go along. (That's how I did it, and in effect, literally read the book twice on the first occasion.) You get a feel for the jargon and you begin to understand and visualize everything that happens. This book will always hold a special place in the hearts of second and third generation hackers - it was definitely the inspiration for countless games, and the locales in the book - Freeside, Chiba, the Sprawl - are familiar places in the underground world. William Gibson opened up a whole new genre of SF when he wrote this one. This will always be one of my faves.
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Summary: William Gibson has a problem with clarity.
Review: In Neuromancer, William Gibson creates a setting that is at once fantastic and reasonable. The characters are perfectly jaded to the novel's advanced technology - plug in the toaster, jack into the matrix, ho humm. Unfortunately, when the narrator has seen it all before, he doesn't spend a lot of time describing what's happening. Gibson's narrator gives you a vague patchwork of the plot - it feels like a drunk's telling you about the movie he just watched. Further, Gibson makes no effort to tell the reader who is speaking. Gibson uses characters he doesn't introduce. Gibson rambles for so long you forget what he is writing about. Don't get me wrong - I feel that a reader should have to work with a book to understand it, but Gibson doesn't even give us a fighting chance.
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Summary: FINGER ON THE PULSE!
Review: I scrolled through a lot of the reviews before I was going to put mine in. I wanted to make sure I had something NEW to say. Most of the people here complain of jargon, or that he tossed in too many 'technical' terms. Anyone ever tried to read A Clockwork Orange? THAT was hard to read. I read three pages into it 3-4 times before I understood it. In Neuromancer you know what is going on, you just have ot exercise that muscle that has atrophied from television.Imagination. If you want easy to read pulp go read it. This is a NOVEL about a WORLD DIFFERENT than our own. People there have their own ways of speaking. I think Gibson did a wonderful job in incorporating the vision of a unique world into his Sprawl works. Neuromancer is where his finger was on the pulse and made his masterpiece. It is too bad that the promise he showed there would not follow in his later works....except perhaps Count Zero.....that came close. Mona Lisa overdrive was ALMOST a waste .....almost. So I guess I sum it up in: If you want your art spoonfed to you look elsewhere. If you have an ACTIVE imagination and want to use it....read it...It is WORTH it.
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Summary: Neuromancer is Eponymous of the Sci Fi Interent Terminology
Review: This is perhaps the best science fiction book I've read (its awards bear this out), and certainly the best Sci Fi book set on the internet. Gibson is doubly impressive for having imagined and written this work in the late 70s and early 80s, when the internet was not even a dream. Gibson's imagery and choice of words rival that of a talented poet as he vividly defines not only the world into which the reader is transported, but also the interactions among the characters. This book works on several levels, with a subtlety that manifests itself upon re-reading. All great novels share this characteristic. I can't recommend this work enough to anyone who enjoys great literature.
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Summary: Book one of three
Review: All I have to say is after you read this, read Count Zero and then read Mona Lisa....they all tie in together
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is a great book. I bought it after seeing (and loving) "The Matrix." This book delineates the future of the Internet.
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Summary: Great...but COLD COLD COLD
Review: Well,the book is great. Style perfect,words an phrases carefully chosen for effect.Story not perfectly clear:what happens really to Jane Tessier- Ashpool? And why all the charachters are so unsympathethic ? There is mass killing ,individual killing,generalized bloodshed,and for what? A good expressionist portrait,but it lacks feeling.It lacks human interest.And for cyberspace and virtual reality,we now have Neal Stephenson and Tad Williams.Sorry will,your novels have skill on word and imagery,but,in my opinion,they have no soul.
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