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Neuromancer by William Gibson

30 reviews

serenspace's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious 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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totallyglitched's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0


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ninepillars's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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binghebun's review

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

4.0

 getting the ugly out of the way first — this book is racist. east asian people are used as set pieces, the turkish character and depiction of istanbul reek of islamophobia, and the zionites are just walking stereotypes of rastafarians. exploring cultures and countries beyond the vaguely-japanese-america of the typical cyberpunk world would have been great to read, but unfortunately gibson handles it all so stereotypically that it loses any interest or style. this book was written fourty years ago, and usually reading any classical or seminal work means you have to wade through this kind of bullshit, and i get that, but it still sucks. there is also a lot of objectification of women, a lot of talk about breasts, which unfortunately, again, i can’t say i’m surprised by considering the genre and time period. but, also again, it sucks.

onto the good — gibson writes with so much style it’s such a pleasure to read. one of my favourite lines  is ‘’i’m doing just fine,’ case said, and grinned like a skull.’ i can picture in my mind exactly what that smile looks like, what case himself looks like, it’s such simple wording but evokes so much. i spent a lot of the narrative completely engrossed but also equally completely lost on what was going on, and i’m not ashamed to say i listened to a podcast outlining the plot of the book upon finishing to really understand what i read. i think part of it is gibson’s writing, but also just the conventions of older sci-fi which i am not accustomed to reading. i still had a lot of fun with this book and found myself always wanting to read more. it’s so fast paced and snappy that you can just keep reading and lose yourself to the world.

i really loved molly, and i’m so glad that gibson utilised the technique of having case being able to see through molly’s eyes to add her pov into the book. while i did say women are objectified in this book, the female characters are fortunately on their own absolutely fantastic — molly and 3jane are as interesting and fucked up as the male characters. case is a great protagonist, the antagonist is truly vile and so hateable, and the depiction of AI is unfortunately as topical as ever. the fact this was written in the 80s is honestly insane.

i found myself a little wanting on the descriptions of everything — a lot of cyberpunk to me is the aesthetic and i found that lacking, but i’m also coming at it with the 2024 perspective with 40 years of visual cyberpunk works, so i think that was an unfair expectation in the first place. the longer out from finishing this book, the more i like it. it was truly so unlike anything i’ve read before and i really enjoyed the shakeup from my usual reading. i definitely want to check out gibson’s other works and more works in the cyberpunk genre.

tw drug use, violence, sexual violence, thoughts of suicide

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josemoya's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • 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

3.5

Lo leí a través del sintetizador de voz y probablemente no sea la mejor manera de hacerlo. Tampoco lo leí en el momento adecuado de mi vida. Por ello me pareció confuso, más que algunas obras de P. K. Dick.
Sin embargo, el mundo reflejado en el libro (aparte los anacronismos que el propio autor menciona en una introducción escrita una década después) es muy interesante.
Volveré a Gibson más tarde, pero ahora creo que no es el momento.

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teainthelibrary's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5


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quiteawful's review against another edition

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

4.5

The og Cyberpunk 2077 inspo. Hard to read, hard to imagine a lot of it, not really sure I liked any of the characters. Lots of crimes and violence. I recommend.

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missmansanas's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark 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

3.5


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cdc95's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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jessthanthree's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious fast-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

3.5


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