It seems I'm a little late to the party, huh? No matter- my words now are just as useless as they would be a few days ago. Fact of the matter is I'm not a big sci-fi buff like most of you. My interests are mainly in horror novels. So I apologize if the things I have to say about this Neuro-thingy book are less than substantial. As far as I'm considered, without zombies, why even bother reading it? (Too biased? Get out of the graveyard you pansy)
Anyway, the first and foremost thing I noticed about this book is the over-attention to details. Might of well been reading a futurized Tale of Two Cities. At times, the amount of descriptions in the story were so thick, I wouldn't understand what was going on if a hacked through them with a metaphoical machete. Hell, I'd have a better chance at comprehension if I used an actual machete. Least then I'd be entertained...
So yes, I will admit, I really haven't much of a clue as to what this book was about. If someone asked me to sum it all up, I think my response would be something along the lines of "um, it was about this hacker guy who is hired to steal...something. And he's got this chick with like razor-nails backing him up and...yeah..." Sometimes I was fortunate enough to understand what was going on in certain scenes, but overall, this book was all nonsense to me. From what I picked up, Armitage(or whatever) wasn't real, the main players were in space at some point for some reason, and then something to do with 3Jane? I don't know... Cool name though.
I guess I should still try to talk about something worth your time, right? Okay, here goes: the main character was a criminal. Fun, right? As previously mentioned (in the cyberpunk blog), not many books feature criminals as the main character. It certainly offered a unique role to readers who are used to happy-go-lucky "good" characters. Instead of Bambi, we followed a guy who steals information for a living (yes, I did gather that much), tries to get high every chance he gets, and seems to be an overall sleezebag. So doublecrossing, he even stole from his clients; which of course ended him up with a fried nervous system. Bambi would never do that...
Well, seeing how most of this book flew right over my head, I suppose that's about as much as I have to say about it. Neuromancer, while I'm sure is widely enjoyable to all you sci-fi geeks (no offense), was simply beyond me. Am I not smart enough or open enough to comprehend such a so-called revolutionary book? Or do my tastes for horror blind me to this futuristic vision? Who knows? All I know is, there are not even science fiction novels out there with a splash of good ol' fashion horror in them. But don't worry, I plan to change that.
-King Steve
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