Thread 24828156

Is it worth reading Neuromancer?

>>24828156 (OP)
Only if you are interested in it

Honestly, it weren't bad.

>>24828156 (OP)
you should read the entire trilogy. i personally preferred count zero for the cool mercenaries with handheld lasers. read johnny menmonic first to tell if you're interested.

>>24828156 (OP)
Yes, just don't go into it expecting realism or hard sci-fi (obviously). Gibson admitted he knew nothing about technology or computers when writing the thing. But its well written.

Also recommend the Cyberpunk 2077 game if you are into cyberpunk as a genre.

i found it pretty stupid but it was kinda fun still

>>24828156 (OP)
I got filtered by the prose.

「……擬似体験って、どういうことです?」
「だから、奥さんも娘も離婚も浮気も全部偽物の記憶で夢のようなものなんです。あなたは何者かに利用されて、政府関係者にゴーストハックを仕掛けてたんですよ。」
「そんな、まさか?」
「あんたのアパートに行ってきた。誰もいやしない。独(ひと)りもんの部屋だ」
「だから、あの部屋は別居の為に借りたアパートで……」
「あんたあの部屋でもう10年も暮らしてるんだ。奥さんも子供もいやしない、あんたの頭の中だけに存在する家族なんだ」
「ごらんなさい。あなたが同僚に見せようとした写真だ。誰が写ってます?」
「確かに写ってたんだ……俺の娘……まるで天使みたいに笑って……」
「その娘さんの名前は?奥さんとはいつ何処で知り合い何年前に結婚しました?そこに写ってるのは、誰と誰です?」

>>24828156 (OP)
Cyberpunk only works in visual media.

>>24828343
You have Chinese characters enabled

>>24828156 (OP)
>read the opening sentence
>fall about laughing
>drop the book
This is the only way to read Neuromancer.

>>24828187
I second the second book as far better.

>>24829436
>THE SKY ABOVE the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
idk that's pretty evocative

>>24828156 (OP)
Is it worth taking a shit? Is it worth eating breakfast? Is it worth making a frogpost?

>>24829608
Evidently my good saar.

>>24828156 (OP)
Just read Akira.

>>24828156 (OP)
Not really. It's one of the worst edited and written books that gets memed as "good" that I've ever read. After it became popular he got a proper editor, so Count Zero and Virtual Light are far cleaner and better reads. However neither really have that reddit-tier epic save the world plot that Neuromancer has so I guess they don't get memed. They are just standard cyberpunk. Gibson himself is a huge lamewad, like Stephen King, has TDS and writes alt history fan fiction about what if Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Maybe some of the shorts in Burning Chrome would be a better idea and much less painful to get through.

>>24830350
isn't he a leaf? why do canadians care so much about trump and American politics?

>>24830364
IIRC he's a draft-dodging American who fled to Canada to avoid going to Vietnam and stayed there seething ever since.

>>24830405
>flee the country for 60 years
>seethe about the president of a country you fled