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A review by noah_hurts
Neuromancer by William Gibson
3.0
I'm a total sucker for Cyberpunk as an idea but this had issues.
PROS: Really neat world building, flowery writing that was super conducive to the drug trips and hacking scenes and really good dialogue.
CONS: The flowery writing made the action scenes impossible to parse. You can't use "she" as a descriptor for characters when there are two female characters in a scene at once and expect the reader to know what's happening. The first 50 pages were completely inscrutable, which sort of works given the protagonist was supposed to be tripping the entire time, but come on.
Worth a read to see where some of the early footprints of Cyberpunk as a genre come from, but that's about it. As a heist novel it has some interesting beats, but it's just a bit of a mess.
PROS: Really neat world building, flowery writing that was super conducive to the drug trips and hacking scenes and really good dialogue.
CONS: The flowery writing made the action scenes impossible to parse. You can't use "she" as a descriptor for characters when there are two female characters in a scene at once and expect the reader to know what's happening. The first 50 pages were completely inscrutable, which sort of works given the protagonist was supposed to be tripping the entire time, but come on.
Worth a read to see where some of the early footprints of Cyberpunk as a genre come from, but that's about it. As a heist novel it has some interesting beats, but it's just a bit of a mess.