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Tiger_the_Lion  ·  3283 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: December 1st: What are you reading this week?

I'm finally getting around to reading Neuromancer by William Gibson. I've already read Idoru and his latest, The Peripheral. Gibson is so good at creating worlds and describing them in a really evocative way. It's easy to get sucked in.





CarlTheMagician  ·  3275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A great book, and definitely an evocative read. Count Zero, the next novel in the series was my favorite of the three. Gibson shifts his writing style in Count Zero from purely Case and Molly's perspective to alternating chapters focusing exclusively on the perceptions of protagonists. I think that is when he really began to hone his style of having multiple disparate stories eventually converge into a climax. He pretty much maintains that style all through the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies, and it will become familiar to you if you've already read Idoru.