Neuromancer by William Gibson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Neuromancer
Book Review: enjoyacble
Summary: 5 Stars
gibson does an excellent job at creating and transporting us to a world and culture which is very much unlike and like the world we currently reside. as always there is a strangeness to the tone and i find myself very much stuck in whatever mood gibson desires the reader to feel. and then he makes you laugh with delight at the sheer imagination he exhibits. in other words, i really wish he was one of those really prolific authors so instead of an occasional treat we would receive a glutton's feast.Book Review: groundbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars
Cutting edge for its time, inspiration of many books and movies (Matrix anyone?), artificial intelligence conspiracies, Rasta in space. Need I say more?Book Review: not worth finishing
Summary: 2 Stars
Really liked other books by Gibson but could not bring myself to finish this one despite being stuck in an airport. Story by it self was not worth all the new and redefined language, book supports the hypothesis outlined here[...].
Book Review: striking, twisting leads to confusing
Summary: 4 Stars
Neuromancer has all the makings of a great book, in my opinion. Firstly, it's hugely original in such a striking way it leaves you in awe. Secondly, there is a love story which isn't too sappy or up in the clouds but seems down-to-earth. Third, it's dark, twisted and creepy, which all good books ought to incorporate. Fourth, there are plot twists after plot twists twisting you into directions which you never would have guessed... which leads to the only damaging fault to the book - there are too many twists which aren't explained in the fullest. This led me to be confused on more than one occasion on the first time reading it. Some will say that If you read it again it'll be much clearer. Perhaps they're right, but I just read it once so far, however, it's on my list to be read again.Book Review: yea its good
Summary: 5 Stars
While many would say that this is a classic, those same many would go on to qualify that it is a "turbo nerd" classic. I'm going to have to disagree with that assessment: it's just plain ole classic. Gibson has really tuned into something here and has realized it on levels which transcend mere genre classifications. Yes this is a genre work: quote unquote: cyberpunk. But this is just a buzzword (and people only make buzzwords for the good stuff right?), this work has literary resonance as a restatement of fundamental themes. Just because it is futuristic and has a dash of kitsch doesn't relegate it to the sci-fi scrap heap (which is just left of the pop scrap heap)--- there is poetry in this work and it is a poetry justified and accentuated by the framing element of the narrative. Gibson is really "using language" here in the literary sense; he's bending and fiddling around with the content aspect of descriptive language, trying to ask the question: "how does one describe what has never been seen so that it is real?" Essentially, a sci fi question performed literarily.
An interesting question is: how does one create a genre? I think it's a question which this book answers (and yes maybe there were others who started 'cyberpunking' earlier, but this is the one that snapped that genre 'into place' so to speak). Making a (in this case: sub)genre is essentially a linguistic task; trope-tweaking, working with content in such a way as to anchor something new (a dual action, making a place and then filling it). This book has a richness and reality to it which a lot of sci-fi does not have, while at the same time delivering full throttle nerd-pleasure. So pretty much, to sum it up: "yes."