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Summary: A stroke of pure geniality
Review: This, as so many of Gibsons other books, are just simply brilliant. Not bad to think out all of this on a typing machine is it?
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Summary: Dense and painful
Review: I'm impressed that Gibson wrote this in the early 80's, yet was able to describe the "future" so clearly. Amazing.I was excited about reading this book; however, I found it to be incredibly difficult to read and had to put it down midway through. I had no idea what he was writing about and it was hard for me to follow what was going on.
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Summary: favorite sci book to date
Review: I read neuromancer for the first time when it first came out in paperback and read it again in 1998. Since discovering Gibson's early published works, I continue to seek, and be frustrated in my search, for other authors that give themselves such license to imagine the changes technology may bring to our lives at a day to day level. The world of the future in Neuromancer is distopic, depressing, manic, crowded, cheap, and seductive. While my enthusiasm for Neuromancer has not spread easily to those I recomended the text to, it remains a book I forsee reading a third time for the pleasure of it.
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Summary: Visionary...poetic...strange...
Review: Far as I'm concerned, Gibson stands out from the rest of the SF society. This book, along with the two to follow, revolutionised the whole SF genre. Don't believe the negative hype, this is probably the only SF writer you'll ever have to read...
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Summary: Defines its own genre
Review: every now and again you read a book that takes you in and transforms your internal world to the extent that reality takes a poor second place .. don't read all the hype about this book, just read it .. and if you get into it, it will change the way you feel for a while and it will always be there to go back to, every now and again .. if you don't like it, get in touch with a second-hand bookstore .. enjoy
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Summary: The absurd and the sublime in one
Review: This story of Henry Dorsett Case. "Thin, high-shouldered, a forgettable face beneath short dark hair. He needed a shave, but then he usually did." A world that is somehow in our future because it includes the BAMA, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. But there is something new, something overwhelming everybody. "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legimate operators, in every nation...A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data." This book seduces you into its world irresistably. The characters, Case, Molly with her razors, Armitage the psycho GI, Wintermute the AI, Maelcum the Jamaican. The places: Chiba City, the Rue Jules Verne. Totally stunning and unforgettable. The author clearly has too much respect for computers, and probably never used one, but his powerful cyberspace vision has been enthusiastically adopted by real hackers and net surfers ever sense. So, it is a must-read. The author clearly was of the starving variety prior to this novel's success, and he pulls out all stops showing how great his grasp of the language is, hoping to sell something and stave off the wolf. So, it's a delicious page-turner, a good read for the literate, but a hard, difficult read for those who "ain't." Unfortunately, he almost mined-out the cyberspace concept in one book, when he was trying to create a new genre. That just makes the book all the more valuable and unique.
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Summary: Sheer brilliance!
Review: The first chapter caught my attention using term I have never heard before, and creating a world so close to what our own could be like it's frightening. I was amazed by the complexity and lavishness of the characters and settings in the novel. After finnishing this book I remember sitting and thinking to myself about how real this novel could become, and I couldn't wait to read Gibson's next work. Sheer brilliance!
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: You hear many negative reviews about this book. However keep in mind when Gibson wrote it. Many of the terminology and technology he foresaw in his writings exists today. To the modern reader it will seem childish, and dated. That is far from the truth. Gibson was a visionary genius, so much so that many college level course require this novel! I have read and read it over and over and will continue to read it. Keep in mind that this is fantasy. Keep an open mind and give it a fair read.
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Summary: perhaps my all-time favorite book
Review: gibson is among my favorite authors, and this book is my favorite by him
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Summary: Could not even finish it!
Review: This is the only book that I have started, and not finish. I really hated doing this, but I had no desire to see what happened after I was half way through. The book is written in strange prose with unusal terms, which make the book hard to follow. I bought this book because of all the praise which it recieved from the Amazon readers, I found it really bizarre. It may have been innovative in its time but I find it rather weird. Their is much better SF to read (aka Ender's Game).
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