Friday, March 5, 2004

Finished Neuromancer by Gibson. I have really mixed thoughts and feeling about the book.
I can see why it is considered a classic, as it is very difficult to believe that it was written decades before the Matrix movies, decades before the worldweb...It had an interesting and well written plot, and Gibson is obviously a first class "world builder". BUT I am someone who likes character driven books, and the characters just had no appeal to me...none of them ever seemed truly fleshed out people I
could care about.
For people who are sensitive to such things (as are many people whom I know are), there is also gratuitous sex, cursing, and violence...

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