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This is the coolest fucking book I've ever read.

>> No.21946081

>>21946070
I have it sitting on my shelf, only read a few pages so far but it seemed interesting. Maybe I should pick it back up. I need to get rid of the voice in my head that keeps going "YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME" everytime I sit down to read a fiction book.

>> No.21946116

>>21946081
why would you be wasting your time ?

>> No.21946131

>>21946081
you're on 4chins, you're voice should be telling you that now

>> No.21946146

>>21946081
cringe

>> No.21946154

Yeah it is pretty fucking cool. The other 2 are good too. Cyberpunk lit started and ended with Neuromancer.

>> No.21946156

>>21946116
I have a lot of interests and not a lot of free time so my brain is always like wait what about that OTHER thing you like that you could be doing? Or that other thing? Wait, don't you have errands to run as well? Go be an adult."
>>21946131
Oh believe me buddy, it is
>>21946146
Very. How can I improve my focus or stop being so hard on myself?

>> No.21946158

I listened to an audiobook of it as one of the first real books I ever engaged with. I would go for long night walks and just listen for hours. I have great memories from that.

>> No.21946182

>>21946070
What's so cool about it?

>> No.21946192

>>21946182
it's basically cyberpunk's greatest hit.

>> No.21946358

>>21946154
lol

>> No.21946361

>>21946156
Get back to work bugboy

>> No.21946918

“And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the Tessier-Ashpool ice.”

Just read the book, nerds.

>> No.21946944

>>21946156
therapy
if it's good the experience will suck tho
good luck

>> No.21947083

Is blue ant trilogy any good? Any thoughts?

>> No.21947538
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21947538

honestly my least liked book in the sprawl trilogy, although it has probably my favourite cover of all time, shame it's so hard to find it and instead most prints just go for the vague geometric shapes cover

>> No.21947655

>>21947538
Can you get this cover in English? I thought it was just for the Portuguese edition or something

>> No.21947705

>>21947655
yeah I'm pretty sure it's just for portugese, even though it became the definitive cover

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21947906

>>21946158
There exists an audio book version narrated by author and w/soundtrack by Brian Eno. Its beyond based.
>>21946192
However what pisses me off is that Gibson feels like 'Pinchon of cyberpunk ' .
Like when author literally jumps out of his pants trying to be witty'n'sleek.
Electric sheep by PKD feels more comfy and close to home BC of this.

>> No.21947949

>>21947906
Where can this be located?

>> No.21947982

Gibson is the kind of writer who's work I think of as scenery porn. It's just really cool, the way he describes locations. It's almost not really about the plot, because the plots are mostly pretty stupid.

>> No.21948269

>>21946918
That all sounded terrible

>> No.21948548

>>21946918
my ex loved neuromancer and she would write retarded poetry and prose written like this all the time

>> No.21949484

>>21947949
Piratebay

>> No.21949487

>>21947949
Inside Lydia's Anus. I have to go return some video tapes.

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21949499

>>21946070
Too bad he got old and scared in his old age...

>> No.21949536

>>21946070
read about a quarter of it and had to stop, just wasn't really fuckin with it. I recognize how groundbreaking it was at the time but the genre has been done to death now

>> No.21949641

My first read was horrid. Gibson has way too many made up phrases and has confusing descriptions. Although I still understood that it was a great book -- somehow. My second read was very enjoyable since I knew the plot and characters and made me appreciate it more. Peak kino

>> No.21949711

>>21947906
PKD isn't cyberpunk. Blade Runner was the primary influence on cyberpunk aesthetics, and Gibson pretty concretely establishes the style in Neuromancer. But PKD's stories have a pathos and a sense of humour that is totally at odds with cyberpunk. Obviously a lot of his concepts about technology and virtual realities were picked up by cyberpunk writers, but without really any of the qualities that made him such a special writer. I've read that they tried to get Scorsese to do Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and I always wonder how that would've turned out.

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>>21946081
>doesn't like to waste time
>also post on 4chan
brainlet

>> No.21950109

>>21949641
I think gibson finds a much more accessable style of writing in count zero, and continues that into mona lisa overdrive and his short stories, on my first read I found some parts of neuromancer a bit too abstract

>> No.21950456

>>21946156
Conquer that first then, right?
Do you read just to read? As long as you can find the value in something, intrusive voices such as yours hold less of an argument.

>> No.21950462

>>21947906
Basically what this anon said:
>>21949711
Gibson is responsible for the 'punk' in Cyberpunk. A moot definition now thanks to publishers not know a thing about definitions beyond marketability.

>> No.21950667

>>21946070
read gridlinked

yw

>> No.21951331

>>21946070
>Will never have a crazy samurai gf. Why live?

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21951847

>>21951331
>and not even a skater girl
you've missed out on life and will never get it back

>> No.21952268

>>21946070
It’s ok. Childhoods End and SnowCrash is better. Also Dune series is better than all scifi put together.