am I missing something or is the editing in this complete shit?
>>24832823gonna have to be more specific
I've tried to read it a few times, always get filtered by the space Jamaicans.
>>24832827I guess just the general pacing of the story, feels like for this type of setting you'd have more gradual transition periods between specific eventsare his other books structured similarly? I know it was debut so he maybe had to cut some corners but if its some kind of stylistic license then I dont like it
>>24832847i mean gibson's style has always been more about evoking settings than exhaustively describing them. Maybe that's what you're picking up on. He did invent the setting and the genre btw, so you can't really fault him for being atypical-he defined what was typical.
>>24832847Cyberpunk novels are usually pretty fast paced in general
>i expected more periods of low-key downtime in the techno megacity
>>24832823I really dislike it.
>>24832872i really dislike you
>>24832871>I expected more balanced composition in this piece of literary fiction i.e. alleged art
>>24832823The three covers this guy made for the trilogy were kino of the highest order.I had to look all over the place to get the right version on my kobo so it would look nice while I was reading them.
It's fucking sci-fi. This is the standard of quality of every haughty STEM nerd you've spoken to in your life. This is the manure they fester on.
>>24832986i think the problem is not that op's standards are too high, it's that they've taken their standards from modern mass-market fiction, with its carefully crafted 'story beats' and tension-and-release structure.
>>24832915>he believes in "literary fiction"kek
>>24832993please swallow the semen fully BEFORE posting, it makes it very difficult to understand what you're trying to say otherwise.
>>24832823It was OK. Funny at times. I did not like the concept of "ICE". Most kick out of it was all the minor details that people in the past did not realise or predicted that it will be outdated so fast. Cant blame them... Maybe the "ICE" also came to be due to inability to imagine the artifical environment of the computer operations and porcesses. While reading the passages about it I have always imagined tiny worm tunels glowing in yellow cutting through it. Best joke was the fake tan oil usage. It reminded me of a certain clown.
>>24832823It's kind of like the beatles for me. I can appreciate it for what it was at the time, but I just don't enjoy it.
your expectations are extremely relevant to whether or not you were FUCKING FILTEREDretards, man
I never read Gibson. Is he better than Stephenson? I picked up a copy of Snow Crash, I think it was, being very into the whole cyberpunk thing, and made it about one chapter before I put it into the trash.
>>24834339Space ninja pizza delivery men? Come the fuck on.. I just made myself angry remembering it.
>>24834339read The Diamond Age, Anathem, Seveneves
>>24834980Ok, but I'm still so angry with that stupid chapter I read that my first thought was to that stone age > diamond afe concept is the dumbest and gayest title I've ever heard without even knowing if that's what he was going for.
>>24832915>considered literary fictionis it?
>>24832823I dropped this book because it seemed like there was a shitload of made-up terminology that you have to learn and I didn't wanna learn that shit
>>24834343Space MAFIA ninja delivery sexy lesbian skate boarders.
>>24832823I found it a bit shite. I don't want to say it is outright terrible, but I do think Neuromancer is a book that was a product of its time and has somehow unfortunately aged out of being relevant. People don't even use the term "cyberspace" really anymore either, now that I think about it. Something like Isaac Asamov's caves of steel or Arthur C Clarke's rendezvous with rama are charming enough to stay relevant to a modern reader. And something more modern like the first Matrix movie is way more broad but applicable, timeless in a lot of ways. Neuromancer is just this shitty middle ground based on late-80s computing speculation and milquetoast characters. It's still a noteworthy piece of art, but I say if you start to read it and find it boring you shouldn't hold any guilt for putting it down forever or giving the book away to someone else
>>24832847Was the second bladerunner your first foray into the genre?
>>24835570Was he not a pizza guy? Did I add that myself?
>>24832823It's garbage, same with Snowcrash, these are just books redditors and protoredditors shill hard as fuck. The writing for both books is literally something I would consider both technically and substance-wise worse than a fanfic.
>>24832823no, it's overrated reddit trash
>>24838458I read some of Stephenson's essays and was impressed, but Snowcrash was trash.. just silly
>>24838502Unironically Snowcrash is one of the worst books I've ever forced myself to read attempting to figure out why it was so suggested. There is nothing of good quality in any of it at all and the only thing I could visualize while reading most of it was pic related overlayed on the pages.
>>24832842They're the best part. Maelcum is a bro
