Neuromancer by William Gibson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Neuromancer
Book Review: takes its sweet time to get going
Summary: 3 Stars
Thing with NEUROMANCER is that there's a lot of cool stuff to think about and imagine in here, but some parts are a chore to read through, because the characters aren't really interesting in and of themselves, but for what they represent. For what they are rather than who they are, get it? And the lack of anything really human in here detracts. Maybe that's the point, that the AIs are more sympathetic than the humans in this world. But its 280 pages to get to that point, and occasionally it doesn't seem worth it. Definitely deserves the attempt, and it's always interesting, but not really *compelling* until the last 130 pages or so.Book Review: the impact of this book has been tremendous....
Summary: 5 Stars
Reading this book two decades after it was first released it is easy to see the tremendous impact it has had on science fiction media. In short it is a must read to really understand science fiction as it has been and will be.
The Matrix trilogy, for example. There are obvious parallels between the self-induced hallucagenic matrix of Neuromancer and the "there-is-no-spoon" world of the Matrix movies. The character Hideo from Neuromancer realized by Sephram in the Matrix. Molly from Neuromancer realized by Trinity in the Matrix. etc... The rastafarian supporting characters is another shared theme between the two works.
The setting of Blade Runner also seems to take many themes from Night City of Neuromancer. The asian setting and the combination of darkness and neon.
The anime Armitage takes it name from a character in Neuromancer.
I'm surprised and dissapointed there isn't a movie of this book yet, however the book is probably better of because of it.
Book Review: the most incredible novel of the last 20 years
Summary: 5 Stars
Neuromancer is really the most incredible novel of the last 20 years. The cyberspace is described in this book better than in all the books i've read. Read it like you look at a motion picture and enjoy it because it's for me one of the 2 most important books I need for a desert island.Book Review: wonderfully imaginative
Summary: 5 Stars
Gibson has an amazing imagination, you simply cant put his books down - and this is no exception. He pulls you into his world and leaves you gasping for more.Book Review: wonderfuuul , marvelouus.....
Summary: 5 Stars
This book and burning chrome are the books that got me reading again. Although I read all the time when I was younger I had stopped reading entirely by the time I became a teenager. Until, in 1986, a friend gave me Burning chrome and then Neuromancer. After that I was hooked on reading again. Gibsons poetic and extremely visual style of writing reminded me that a book can be so much more than a movie can. Unfortunatley William Gibson could never write again after these initial novas of creativity. If you've read any of his other books first, before these two, put them out of your mind because its apparently not the same William Gibson, or mabey he got hit in the head or something? If the impact of neuromancer's concepts has been dulled and seems passe now, Gibson is as much to blame for it as anyone. He has made a career out of re-hacking the ideas from his first novel all through the nineties, and he has never been poetic again. My parents loved heinlin and tolkien, And people younger than me swear that snow crash is the last word ( which i tried and despised, go figure!). But to me and many people who read this for the first time in the mid-eighties, the decade of all those great one hit wonders, nothing was finer. And even today these two books are my most cherished and favorite stories ever told.