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A review by bruinuclafan
Neuromancer by William Gibson
2.0
Imagine being the guy who came up with The Matrix and executing it so poorly that nobody knows it but a fairly small subset of people. Neuromancer is the tale of Case, a washed up hacker who gets recruited for one last big job. He joins a rag-tag crew of unsavory characters to ultimately pull off an Oceans Eleven type heist.
The problem is that the characters are terrible and not well developed. The plot is fine, and some of the ideas in the book are amazing (this book was written in 1984, well before computers were part of everyday life, which I admit makes Gibson quite a visionary). But the execution just isn't there. The book is not written well. It's hard to follow at times. The dialogue sucks.
Is it worth a read? I'd say yes, with the proper perspective. But I would not rank this anywhere close to books written by the sci-fi masters (i.e. Le Guin).
The problem is that the characters are terrible and not well developed. The plot is fine, and some of the ideas in the book are amazing (this book was written in 1984, well before computers were part of everyday life, which I admit makes Gibson quite a visionary). But the execution just isn't there. The book is not written well. It's hard to follow at times. The dialogue sucks.
Is it worth a read? I'd say yes, with the proper perspective. But I would not rank this anywhere close to books written by the sci-fi masters (i.e. Le Guin).