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bornin1142's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
2.0
draconan's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
aiden_stenlake's review against another edition
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
lfro2013's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
3.75
Definitely my least favorite of the trilogy. It feels a bit cobbled together and I still don't understand how they manage to get to Centauri from within the aleph biosoft if it's offline storage? Just a bit confusing this one, and feels much smaller in scope than the others.
lucaswhite1's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
800slim's review against another edition
4.0
the final book in the Sprawl-trilogy reunites us with Molly Millions and other characters from the previous two books...
short plot description: set after the events in "Count Zero" we follow several seemingly unrelated plots. Kumiko Yanaka is the daughter of a yakuza boss and send to London to get her out of harms way. There she meets an older Molly Millions who is blackmailed into kidnapping Angie Mitchell, now a famous SimStim-star with a drug problem. Slick Henry is a convicted criminal-turned-artist with a memory problem who gets pressured into taking care of Bobby Newmark, who hooked himself fulltime into a gigantic ram-construct nicknamed Aleph. Mona is a naive street prostitute working for a low-life pimp with grand plans....
my thoughts: more complex and character-driven than Gibson's previous novels. The new characters are interesting, the established characters are getting more depth, nothing really new is added to the world of the Sprawl.
Gibson has settled into his style, we see the events through several points of view, most notably we get this time two innocent/naive views through the eyes of Kumiko, who is young and for the first time outside of Japan and Mona who hasn't seen much outside her narrow circle of street crime, bars and prostitution.
The plot feels to me a bit like an afterthought, it is as if Gibson wanted to be finished with this whole AI-in-Cyberspace thing and is more interested in the characters and moving on to more interesting things.
Still a very strong novel, especially the parts written from Kumiko's point of view.
my advice: should be hard to read as a stand-alone novel, too many characters and events from the previous novels have to be known for the plot to make sense. Start with "Neuromancer" and if you don't like "Count Zero" don't bother with this book.
short plot description: set after the events in "Count Zero" we follow several seemingly unrelated plots. Kumiko Yanaka is the daughter of a yakuza boss and send to London to get her out of harms way. There she meets an older Molly Millions who is blackmailed into kidnapping Angie Mitchell, now a famous SimStim-star with a drug problem. Slick Henry is a convicted criminal-turned-artist with a memory problem who gets pressured into taking care of Bobby Newmark, who hooked himself fulltime into a gigantic ram-construct nicknamed Aleph. Mona is a naive street prostitute working for a low-life pimp with grand plans....
my thoughts: more complex and character-driven than Gibson's previous novels. The new characters are interesting, the established characters are getting more depth, nothing really new is added to the world of the Sprawl.
Gibson has settled into his style, we see the events through several points of view, most notably we get this time two innocent/naive views through the eyes of Kumiko, who is young and for the first time outside of Japan and Mona who hasn't seen much outside her narrow circle of street crime, bars and prostitution.
The plot feels to me a bit like an afterthought, it is as if Gibson wanted to be finished with this whole AI-in-Cyberspace thing and is more interested in the characters and moving on to more interesting things.
Still a very strong novel, especially the parts written from Kumiko's point of view.
my advice: should be hard to read as a stand-alone novel, too many characters and events from the previous novels have to be known for the plot to make sense. Start with "Neuromancer" and if you don't like "Count Zero" don't bother with this book.
mdpenguin's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
This one pushes the envelope of credulity a bit more than the other two novels, but it makes up for it by being more engrossing and even more exciting than them. It ties up the trilogy well, giving us closure on the main characters from the other novels and giving us perspectives from some new, interesting, and likable ones. Overall, it was really good and so was the trilogy, but the ending is kind of contrived and I'm not sure that it really makes a whole lot of sense as a resolution for the characters involved.
hestonhoffman's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0