Why yes, half page descriptions of lamps and countertops with the occasional interjection of brain dead criminals speaking futuristic ebonics. It certainly deserves all the praise. Were people really that bored in the 80s to enjoy this?I'm not finishing it. I feel my neurons dying in real time. I was right for putting it off for so many years.
>>24946610>brain dead criminals speaking futuristic ebonicsHe knew
>>24946728Is he talking about the Space Jamaicans? That's not ebonics, it's Jamaican patois.
>>24946610Well you're acting as if it was written yesterday, so you're just a retard and there's nothing else to say
>>24946610manchildren are not going to like this
he simply perfectly described the world we're living in, 60 years ago.
>>24947046lol no he didn't
>>24946610you sound filtered
>>24947487By taste, which is perfectly reasonable. You really should have a filter against poor taste.
>>24946610gibson's autism is cool but his writing can get pretty bad. he's an ideas guy.
Knowing about the Bleak House study is like a curse. I'm constantly reminded of the fact that the average modern english major has less reading comprehension than an illiterate Victorian factory worker.>half page descriptions of lamps and countertopsIt used to be that when I saw "criticisms" like this applied to books with perfectly normal prose, I assumed it was just a matter of bad taste. Now I realize that there are many readers who are literally not capable of reading a sentence of descriptive prose longer than five words. It seems that nine times out of ten, complaing that a book is "overly descriptive" is merely outing yourself as functionally illiterate. I simply cannot take you seriously, OP.
>>24947621yes, but the book does suck
>>24946610you haven't read burroughs or pynchon, have you?
>>24946610Neuromancer doesn't really hold up, mostly because what came out after took what he did and did it better. His prose is very jilted from what I remember. That being said the book is important because it invented a genre/subgenre. It's still a good novel, but if you have read other cyberpunk you probably find it formulaic without realizing that it created the formula.
Gibson has great imagery actually. Some of the best
>>24947771The prose is like the main thing I here praised about it these days since by this point every other cyberpunk story ever made took the ideas and story and characters and ran them into the ground
>>24947918>I here praised
