/lit/ - Literature

Has anon read this novel? I am a few chapters in, they jjsy hacked the bank and are researching Armitage. Great book, why hasnt this been made yet into a movie??!!

What is the essential cyberpunk beyond William Gibson?

Are there any readers on /lit/ who work in IT? Cyberpunk seems to be a perfect fit for me. More specifically necromancer and the sprawl trilogy. Seems to be a nice mix of tech jargon coupled with fantasy. Anyone care to elaborate?

I hate this book. I don't want to hate it - in fact I'm making this thread so someone here can shed light on it, and maybe encourage me to reconsider my opinion on it.

But it just seemed to me like someone who really wanted to branch out from their regular pulp and so skimmed some Pynchon, got inspired by what they construed through the LSD blear, and jetted this out in one go. Completely missing, of course, the essential structure of the style they found themselves aping.

I thought this before I learned Gibson was a Pynchon fan, and it's only obvious to me now - in fact, notice the involvement of Devo in the video-game adaptation (Devo also a TP fan, their most famous song an attempt to mimic the lyrics in GR).

Neuromancer is words upon words - high vocab words and made-up jargon - but nothing is said with them, they convolute without expressing, they clash against each other and sink into geeky torpor.

The characters are one-dimensional, it veers from genre-fiction camp to desperate attempts to seem literary and loaded with portents, but Gibson (self-admittedly) knows nothing of the finer workings of the technology he's musing about. He never touched a computer until five years later.

This work is described as important historically, but it seemed to me to be a forerunner not to any real predicted phenomenon in our society, but to the laziness of video-games. The whole book is nothing but a walk through a world where 'neat' things are existing and being 'neat.'

Please, fans, tell me what you got out of it.