William Gibson/Neuromancer

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>>9639739
I could never finish that book, the stream of consciousness style pisses me off so much. Im glad my feelings towards Necromancer being a non-nonsensical novel has been validated. Thank you OP. Now might I suggest an actual Sci-Fi Book.

>>9639750
not sherrif serious

>>9639739
Damn. Does he live on twitter? His output is astonishing

>>9639758
agreed

he's completely embraced it, which is surprising because for a long time i think he refused to use computers and the internet lol

>>9639750
literally his least meritable first contact novel of that loosely collated trilogy.

the film version is by far more significant, though both are to say the least, eminent.

>>9639739
I didn't really like it to be honest. I found it nonsensical too. I only read it because I found 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' enjoyable and I bought the two around the same time.
I'll admit I'm not the biggest sci-fi fan but 'Neuromancer' left a bad impression of Gibson. If I were to read more sci-fi again I'll be sticking to other authors.

>>9639739
I like how nonsensical it is. I also liked the stream of consciousness prose a lot, although it makes some parts impossible to understand because not only was the internet a new thing at the time (and much more different than what it is now) but Gibson didn't bother actually portraying it realistically, so you're just left with this odd mix of outdated real technology and equally outdated fantastical technology.

I read it when i was like 13 for the first time and for the life of me i could not understand a single fucking thing of what was going on, but i remember loving the aesthetic. Gibson has my favorite prose in science fiction and I earnestly believe it's literary enough to move him out of the genre shit camp. I decided to read it a while later and it made a lot more sense since by that time i was more familiar with the tech of the time.

I wish I could get shit out of genre-fiction but I find it mind dulling.

>>9639764
The movie
>completely skips the Chinese trying to get to the Jovian moon!
>It completely skims moon walkers troubles and how he became self aware.
>It Completely skips the fight between the jaguar and moon walkers tribe.
>The internal conflict faced by hal was completely ignored
Compared to the book, the movie is absolutely trash.

>>9639739
Doesn't contain the same silly fun as Snow Crash. Some ideas from the Matrix come from there, naturally.

I read Johnny Mnemonic (it's pretty short). Seems like South Park makes fun of that short story with dolphins. The story is probably not filmable, but someone tried, nonetheless.