So this is nowhere near as good as everyone led me to believe.

>>9540075
No, it's one of the most overrated books of all time.

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>>9540075
>So this is nowhere near as good as everyone led me to believe.
Oh wow, maybe OP will give me some hindsigh-
>Does it get better past the beginning?
How about you finish the god damned book before you try to talk about it?

>>9540109

If you take a bite of a sandwich and it taste like someone put actual shit in it, do you stop eating or finish the entire thing before saying "Wow, a literal shit sandwich!"

>>9540075
Honestly, drop. It's terribly written even by science fiction standards.

>>9540121
>food analogies

>>9540144

You've got to go small when attempting to converse with small minds

>>9540075
bump because I'm also interested

It's great, read it

>>9540075
The Sprawl Trilogy creates such a comfy world. Sorry you aren't enjoying it anon, you're missing out.

>>9540258

>comfy

>rampant poverty and drug use
>government is inherently corrupt
>human liberty crushed under economic interests

>>9540314
it's just Nick Land posting on /lit/ again.

>>9540075
If you're feeling that right now then really do yourself a favor and drop it, it doesn't get better. I gritted my teeth the entire time and it only gets dumber.

>>9540075
You're too dumb to explain what it is you don't like about the book, so yeah, you're probably not going to make it until the end. After you fail, please keep in mind that your opinion on the book is NOT a valid one because you were too low IQ and weak-willed to finish it. Please keep all of your current and future thoughts on Neuromancer quarantined inside your mediocre brain in order to avoid infecting discussions with your ignorance

>>9540402
It's just a fucking pulp novel dude

>>9540075
i tried reading it and felt the same way. story wasn't particularly engaging and the writing felt clunky

>>9540121

How fat are you?

At least you aren't complaining that it is too hard like that other idiot a few weeks back.

Why do people tend to use the italian cover of them is book to represent it?

>>9540075
That cover is horrible.

>>9540552

18% Bf last I checked, hoping to hit 15% by July

>>9540560

Very clean and obvious what it is from a glance.

All other covers are cluttered and require longer to look at to understand title, by which time the passerby' gaze has already moved on.

>>9540075
yeah i dropped it as well, even gibson admits its kind of immature

apparently the ending is great though

Its "goodness" comes from its uniqueness for its time period when it was written. Some metaphors get stale,and tech related ones have a notoriously short sell by date. As it stands,I found it amusing enough,and its only attraction to even try it was to understand its place in the genre's history.

>>9540075

I tried reading it several times and can't get past the first 25 pages.

>>9540121
>uses a retarded food analogy for literature
It's time to stop posting here, John Green. You've been found out.

>>9540075
Like almost all science ficiton, it is shit.

>>9541081

This

Favorite line from the book is "A motherload of 3 megabytes of Hot Ram"

>>9540075
>Does it get better past the beginning?
Yes, the start is trash

>>9540314
It's basically our world with space rastas and augmentations, so, better than the shit we got.

>>9540560
>>9540560
It's the brazilian one, and idk but even Gibson himself seems to be a huge fan of it, I've seen him talk about it on twitter at least twice.

>>9540121
Shit sandwiches rae a commodity in some countries you uncultured pleb.

>>9541140
pretty much this

What's Gibson's best? I'll probably force myself to finish Neuromancer but what should I read after? The Peripheral sounds decent, as do the follow ups in the Sprawl trilogy.

It's good by pulp science fiction standards. If you think Dune is a great book, you'll enjoy it.

>>9542896
I thought Dune was alright. I don't think it's a masterpiece but I can understand why plebs would say that. Neuromancer was a steaming pile of shit that I stopped reading five pages from the end. I have never understood why anyone on /lit/ or thinks this is good. Dune may not be great but it is more than just pulp, Neuromancer is so pulpy it's just an orange.

>all this hate for neuromancer
i loved it. if not for the story then just for gibson's poetic writing. but honestly i loved the story too. it gets great once wintermute is introduced.

im really curious. what do you all dislike about it so much?

>>9540314
replace comfy with immersive and engaging

>>9542878
>What's Gibson's best?
i just finished count zero and i liked it a lot more than neuromancer (even though i loved neuromancer too).

i feel like the pacing is a lot better. it pulls you in right off the bat. and the way that gibson juggles three different stories and then gradually weaves them together is really genius imo. also, it's less about straight action and more about the implications of what the matrix means to humanity as a species. it gets pretty philosophical and religious which i loved.

>>9540075
feel for the Neuromancer meme too
and after watching some interviews with gibson probably not gonna read anything else by him

>im really curious. what do you all dislike about it so much?
is anyone going to answer this?

>>9543712
damn i guess not. i was hoping to have an actual discussion about this book but i guess we're just going to sling meaningless derogatory comments towards it

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>>9543473

Dune is great. Most ebin sci-fi book I've ever read.

As for Neuromancer, I felt that it couldn't been revised before publication. The Matrix scenes are also pretty dated. Those two aspects made it difficult for me to follow the story.

>>9544170

*could have

>>9543712
>>9544150
I read at most a third of it before giving up. I understand why he made the language choices that he did, but I found it painful to read. I think he went too far with it. There were an unusual amount of words of which I didn't know the meaning and that certainly hindered my potential for enjoyment. It wasn't what I was expecting.

>>9544209
gibson will agree with this

he basically said it was adolescent and he would 'buy that guy a beer but not lone him money'

>>9544209
fair enough. the language is the main reason why i was drawn to his work to begin with. i feel like it really defined the whole cyberpunk aesthetic. but that's coming from someone who loves all that shit.

i can see how it's verbosity and complexity would be a turn off to some.

>>9544224
>that guy
who is he referring to? case? or his past self?

>>9544295

Both. He's admitted that Case is semi self-insert

>>9544401
oh cool i had no idea

>>9540075
no