Neuromancer

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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick AwardsCase was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex employer crippled his nervous system Now a new employer has recruited him for a last chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence With a mirror eyed girl street samurai riding shotgun, he s ready for the silicon quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Read Neuromancer By William Gibson – kino-fada.fr Wow This is a wild ride If you like Philip K Dick s writing and wondered what would happen if you extended his vision into the not too distant future, if you liked Bladerunner, if you liked The Matrix and even if you like all the film and fiction that has made an attempt to be any of the above, you will love Neuromancer.William Gibson said that while writing Neuromancer he went to see the Ridley Scott film Bladerunner and thought that his ideas for the book were hopelessly lost, that Wow This is a wild ride If you like Philip K Dick s writing and wondered what would happen if you extended his vision into the not too distant future, if you liked Bladerunner, if you liked The Matrix and even if you like all the film and fiction that has made an attempt to be any of the above, you will love Neuromancer.William Gibson said that while writing Neuromancer he went to see the Ridley Scott film Bladerunner and thought that his ideas for the b...Eureka Hallelujah I ve had a wondrous epiphany I finally get itI have seen the light and understanding has dawned Gibson s manifest brilliance has revealed itself to me and I am left humbled and quivering in AWE After a rocky, tumultuous courtship that oscillated between respect and frustration through my first two readings of Neuromancer, number 3 became the CHARMing, rapturous awakening into a hopelessly devoted, head over heals love affair that I m confident will last a lifetime Eureka Hallelujah I ve had a wondrous epiphany I finally get itI have seen the light and understanding has dawned Gibson s manifest brilliance has revealed itself to me and I am left humbled and quivering in AWE After a rocky, tumultuous courtship that oscillated be...For well over 20 years, I have seen copies of William Gibson s Neuromancer on the Sci Fi Fantasy shelves of nearly every bookstore I have gone into I recently decided to pick up a copy and read it I figured a book that s been continuously in print for over twenty years and is considered a ground breaking work in Science Fiction had to be good I figured wrong Neuromancer is a very convoluted novel It jumps from local to local and situation to situation in a very jerky way To add to the For well over 20 years, I have seen copies of William Gibson s Neuromancer ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Adapted from ISawLightningFall.blogspot.comThe first time I tried to read Neuromancer, I stopped around page 25.I was about 15 years old and I d heard it was a classic, a must read from 1984 So I picked it up and I plowed through the first chapter, scratching my head the whole time Then I shoved it onto my bookshelf, where it was quickly forgotten It was a dense, multilayered re...A lozenge is a shape Like a cube, or a triangle, or a sphere I know that every time he types it, you are going to imagine a cough drop flying serenely by, but it s a shape It s from heraldry for god s sake You may want to look up some synonyms to insert for yourself when he uses it, here are a few diamond, rhombus, mascle Now that the greatest obstacle in Gibson s vocabulary has been dealt with, I can tell you that he writes in one of the finest voices of any Science Fiction author His A lozenge is a shape Like a cube, or a triangle, or a sphere I know that every time he types it, you are going to imagine a cough drop flying serenely by, but it s a shape It s from heraldry for god s sake You may want to look up some synonyms to insert for yourself when he uses it, here are a few diamond, rhombus, mascle Now that the greatest obstacle in Gibson s vocabulary has been dealt with, I can tell you that he writes in one of the finest voices of any Science Fiction author His ability to describe things in ...Context Sometimes the key to understanding something is context And never is thatthe case than with the book Neuromancer Neuromancer is a very famous, genre creating changing book, winner of many awards I m reading Neuromancer for the first time while not quite done, I find the story to be decent and the writing to be ok As just a book that I am reading, I would call it fair But that is an evaluation without context.Under what context does my evaluation change Well, one of the Context Sometimes the key to understanding something is context And never is thatthe case than with the book Neuromancer Neuromancer is a very famous, genre creating changing book, winner of many awards I m reading Neuromancer for the first time while not quite done, I find the story to be decent and the writing to be ok As just a book that I am reading, I would call it fair But that is an evaluation without context.Under what context does my evaluation change Well, one of the first things I noticed when I picked it up is that it was originally published nearly 25 years ago, in 1984 And it is at that point that the context suddenly clicks and becomes crucial Neuromancer is a book about, in large part, individuals exploring and exploiting cyberspace and, to a lesser extent, about artificial intelligence When this book was written, the vast majority of people did not own a computer it was...DNF at 61%.I am sorry, I really am I tried really hard to finish it and made an attempt to resume reading after a break I understand the huge influence the novel had on science fiction practically creating cyberpunk genre and introducing several words now in mainstream use I fully acknowledge it Let me say what was wrong with it in my opinion.If there was ever a victim of its own success, this book is it It was so successful lots of people began developing the same theme and often much DNF at 61%.I am sorry, I really am I tried really hard to finish it and made an attempt to resume reading after a break I understand the huge influence the novel had on science fiction pract...Wow What a terrible book.First, let me just say that I read for entertainment value Anything else that happens is gravy That being said the biggest reason this book is so awful is that Gibson s characters are completely hollow Gibson makes it up as he goes along He ll introduce a character, barely describe him and then 10 chapters later toss in another description As if to say Oh, yeah did I mention his hands were chainsaws Yeah, they were totally chainsaws Cool right The reason this Wow What a terrible book.First, let me just say that I read for entertainment value Anything else that happens is gravy That being said the biggest reason this book is so awful is that Gibson s characters are completely hollow Gibson makes it up as he goes along He ll introduce a character, barely describe him and then 10 chapters later toss in another description As if to say Oh, yeah did I mention his hands were chainsaws Yeah, they were totally chainsaws Cool right The reason this is such a headache is that once your mind s eye has cast the characters, as shallow as they are, all of a sudden there s a new dimension tossed in He doesn t just do this with characters, he does it with locations as well Never giving you a chance to really place the characters in a settin...I am going to have to admit that I was utterly confused by the majority of this book I mean,His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair fine glass spines How s that again Eggs of humming rainforest glass No Normally I would read a sentence like that and just throw in the towel But for all its trippy, surreal, dense prose, this book still manages to convey so much Reading it I am going to have to admit that I was utterly confused by the majority of this book I mean,His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair fine glass spines How s that again Eggs of humming rainforest glass No Normally I would read a sentence like that and just throw in the towel But for all its trippy, surreal, dense prose, this book still manages to convey so much Reading it feels a lot like listening to a classic opera I may not speak Italian, but I can feel the emotion nonetheless I ...I was watching Jeopardy a few weeks ago when I first heard of Gibson Technology for 200 I coined the term cyberspace and the next morning on my commute to work I heard another allusion to the Canadian author on NPR A few days later, someone recommended I read Neuromancer so seeing as the stars were seemingly aligning to place a Gibson novel at the top of my to read list, I went out and bought this novel I am glad I did Not only did it remind me that I needed to readsci fi from I was watching Jeopardy a few weeks ago when I first heard of Gibson Technology for 200 I coined the term cyberspace and the next morning on my commute to work I heard another allusion to the Canadian author on NPR A few days later, someone recommended I read Neuromancer so seeing as the stars were seemingly aligning to place a Gibson novel at the top of my to read list, I went out and bought this novel I am glad I did Not only did it remind me that I needed to readsci fi from time to time, but it was just good fun It recalled my high school days of first watching Ghost in the Shell, or Blade...

Neuromancer
  • English
  • 22 April 2018
  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • William Gibson
  • Neuromancer