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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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A bit of an embarrassment on the canon's part, really. Oooh Harsh! This one's "a landmark novel" that was actually ripped off by thousands of other sci-fi endeavors afterwards, like a chunk of meat devoured by the ever-hungry idea-challenged.
And it has explosive sentences with new and often-inexplicable lingo that ends making one feel alienated by the entire lit. crowd, this being a perennial favorite of theirs. It is a messy concoction thats too cool to let you ever, well, absorb. To allow you time to stop an smell the roses (this would imply having a memorable time with the book). Guess I can see how that was revolutionary, at the time. But today, honey: NO!
It is basically this: an over-explanation of location, although the location is never an issue. The theme is comic-book party on uppers (with insipid guests to boot). It is a disdainful William Burroughs wannabe, but the nausea does not come from the prose, but from the implausibility & laughability of plot, characters and "themes."
And it has explosive sentences with new and often-inexplicable lingo that ends making one feel alienated by the entire lit. crowd, this being a perennial favorite of theirs. It is a messy concoction thats too cool to let you ever, well, absorb. To allow you time to stop an smell the roses (this would imply having a memorable time with the book). Guess I can see how that was revolutionary, at the time. But today, honey: NO!
It is basically this: an over-explanation of location, although the location is never an issue. The theme is comic-book party on uppers (with insipid guests to boot). It is a disdainful William Burroughs wannabe, but the nausea does not come from the prose, but from the implausibility & laughability of plot, characters and "themes."
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Oct 02, 2016 03:30PM
Thanks for the warning, I was actually just considering reading this!
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I speak for many: "Honey, no"
I once took this along to read on a plane trip. I wished I could’ve thrown it out the window.
So you liked it, or...
Fabian wrote: " It is a messy concoction thats too cool to let you ever, well, absorb"I'd have to say that this would be a more accurate statement if you said, "me" instead of the general "you".
I found entirely the opposite effect. The lingo became apparent to me, through context, and I found the novel to be a fresh and engaging story.
I'm just saying that it's not the novel being opaque, it's more about the subjective experience meaning not everyone enjoys everything.
You have summed up eloquently what I felt after reading it....but I questioned myself as so many others hailed it as a masterpiece that I must’ve been too daft to grasp it.
I can see why one wouldnt like the lingo, but why do you consider the plot implausiblity laughable? There are much more unusual and 'out-there' sci-fi narratives (The Doomed City for example).
Haha!! This is so me!! I couldn't wait to finish the book. It was just torture. I wanted to be put out of my misery finally!
