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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2008, 10:11:21 AM »
What draws me in is the almost lyrical prose that Gibson can put on the page and also the way he draws this world without resorting to your garden variety exposition.

I liked that too, there was a few times that I was like "What's going on?" But I liked that he just threw us into this world without all the exposition. 
"It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart"

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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2008, 04:53:52 AM »
I liked that as well. I'm mid-way through chapter 6 now, and it's definitely growing on me. There's a lot going on, and I think that there's going to be a big pay-off at the end, which should be fairly rewarding.

Probably the biggest thing I'm noticing at the moment is how incredibly similar it is to the Ghost in the Shell manga. I'm aware Ghost came later, but they could have practically been written by the same person. So many of the ideas and concepts are so similar its scary.

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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2008, 10:02:18 AM »
This book has had more influence on pop culture as we know it than any other.
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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2008, 06:04:19 PM »
This book has had more influence on pop culture as we know it than any other.

Oh yeah, I agree, definitely. Cyberspace, viruses, the matrix, and they're just the ones off the top of my head.

My reference to Ghost in the Shell was more direct. I'm jumping ahead a bit now, so I'll revert to spoilers, but:

The scenes where they're pulling the heist or whatever in Part II and Molly is physically there and Case is using viruses and bypassing the ice is remarkably, remarkably similar to certain scenes in Ghost in the Shell 2: Man Machine Interface where Mokoto Aramaki is changing bodies and sending viruses.


I'm really interested, reading this, to see where so many of these ideas that are so common place today have originated.

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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2008, 06:49:50 PM »
I'm going to try and join in.  Haven't read this book in years, but I have a signed copy!

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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2008, 07:54:41 AM »
Wow, we are supposed to be through part 2 by now? School is ridiculous right now, depriving me of reading time. At least that's my lame excuse. I'll try to catch up sometime this weekend.

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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2008, 10:10:06 AM »
It's amazing how similar The Matrix is to Neuromancer (thus far, at least).
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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2008, 10:24:41 AM »
Yeah - I am betting that a lot of Trinity's character was based on Molly. The idea of an entire world online (although Neuromancer's seems like it would be more like the world in Tron) plus the idea of Intelligent, sentient machines. Neo as well is almost a direct lift from Case: The reluctant anti-hero who very grudgingly plays a part in these greater events

I am fascinated by the background of this world - I said it before but Gibson really packs a lot of information into his writing. Like he said about Molly - lean and spare like a dancer - that's his prose.
If you stop and read the short story: Johnny Mnemonic before the Straylight Run section - you will see an overlap and a bit of Molly's background as well.
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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2008, 10:27:57 AM »
endorphin analog, just awesome  :)
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Re: October Book Club - Neuromancer
« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2008, 10:58:51 AM »
endorphin analog, just awesome  :)

The ethnogens in his world sound waaay better than the ones in ours.
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