Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Neuromancer by William Gibson

41 reviews

byorgey's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Drug use

rubybastille's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Filing this one under “I recognize it’s a formative text in the genre but I did not enjoy reading it.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Drug use

minzzi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

  This book was ok. The writing is just the way I like it, kinda poetic/metaphorical and not a lot of exposition. I also liked that, even though It's a book about computers and hackers, the narrative was more fantastical than hardcore sci-fi and the plot is very easy to follow.
   The characters, on the other hand... The main cast is fine (I am biased towards asshole protagonists after all) and so is Wintermute, but some of the side characters felt like just huge racial steriotypes to me and I couldn't concentrate in some parts because of how bad it was. 
  This book also falls into that old tale of "female character suffers sexual related trauma, but it's ok because she is a badass warrior" and I hate that so much.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Sexual violence, Murder, Sexual content, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

thebustadotjpg's review against another edition

I really wanted to like this but it was a slog for me, I want to get into cyberpunk and I felt like this was a good entry point, but I felt like half of the words here are made up, so the descriptions don’t actually explain anything to me. The concept of the cyberspace might have been more acceptable to me if I was alive in the 80s but it’s hilariously dated now, with floating squares of data just zooming around and what not. The most I comprehended from this is that the main character has more sex than anyone ever in the history of the universe. Don’t know if I’m going to pick this one up again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

coolfijiwater's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Body horror, and Addiction

Minor: Incest and Vomit

luxxltyd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Terminal illness

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Addiction, and Sexual content

Minor: Incest and Suicide

edensbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual content, and Violence

shinylightblue's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This is definitely a foundational work in the genre and the descriptions are lush and amazing. I love reading older sci-fi for the kind of grimy analog futurism and no one does that like Gibson. However, the main character is kind of pathetic and weird, the women feel like props, and the characters of colour are embarrassing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexual content, Addiction, Body horror, Gun violence, Violence, War, Murder, Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Medical content, and Misogyny

Minor: Ableism, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, and Rape

dargent94's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, and Cursing