I didn’t know anything about it, other than it was like the Bible to the cyber punk genre. I knew the matrix was based off it so I thought it would be this cool, fun, easy read…..well. Could I have been MORE wrong? If you miss one sentence, it feels as if you ripped out 20 pages of a regular book. It’s obvious that the author wants you to be confused and I’m not certain that he truly knows what is going on himself.
I like it though. I respect what it’s done for science fiction as a whole. I think the book becomes a lot more enjoyable when you abandon the need to understand everything that is going on, and just let it flow. Once I realized that the author is pretty much doing that himself, I got into it.
by Great_gatzzzby
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It’s like a cocaine fueled ride on the back of a motorcyle going 90, lol. No chill
I didn’t care for it.
It insists upon itself
I saw your title and laughed.
Gibson isn’t trying to confuse you. He just expects you to figure things out from the context. It will get easier as you go along.
If you liked Neuromancer, you could also try “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson.
Jack mcdevitt has a lot of ‘easy read’ books. He’s actually one of my favorite authors in the space mystery genre, and I have every one of his academy and Alex Benedict books. They aren’t terrible books by any means, and you can pretty much pick up any of them and understand everything in them
It starts making sense like around 110 pages imo.