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A review by xkrow
Neuromancer by William Gibson
3.0
Won't score this, at least yet.
Gibson is clearly a talented author: this is clear from the first line of the book. His enigmatic descriptions and strange ideas never come off as obvious symptom of a weak writer. Instead, reading, you feel the blame placed on yourself, for your own inability to picture and understand the world he has crafted. A world so outstanding and brimmed with ideas that the genre, even today, is unable to leave its shadow. Not because they're trying to replicate it, but because they cannot imagine a genre without it. Neuromancer doesn't feel original or outstanding to someone coming off modern stories in the genre precisely because the ideas it generated have been reused without recycling; the same fight with artifical constructs, the "gangster" mentalities, the corporations. The "punk" has become the norm, seeping any true rebellion from the story telling.
But anyways, that's just what I thought after reading and listening to other people's opinions. Now I gotta go find some place that can actually explain wtf happened in the story
Gibson is clearly a talented author: this is clear from the first line of the book. His enigmatic descriptions and strange ideas never come off as obvious symptom of a weak writer. Instead, reading, you feel the blame placed on yourself, for your own inability to picture and understand the world he has crafted. A world so outstanding and brimmed with ideas that the genre, even today, is unable to leave its shadow. Not because they're trying to replicate it, but because they cannot imagine a genre without it. Neuromancer doesn't feel original or outstanding to someone coming off modern stories in the genre precisely because the ideas it generated have been reused without recycling; the same fight with artifical constructs, the "gangster" mentalities, the corporations. The "punk" has become the norm, seeping any true rebellion from the story telling.
But anyways, that's just what I thought after reading and listening to other people's opinions. Now I gotta go find some place that can actually explain wtf happened in the story