Neuromancer or William Gibson?

Carafin · 07-28-2004, 09:33 AM

I'm jukst wondering if anyone else has read Neuromancer in particular, since I just finished it and found it good.

Carafin · 07-28-2004, 03:42 PM

Sorry I have such bad spelling and clarity problems,
I just read Neuromancer by William Gibson, and I'm wondering if anyone else has read Neuromancer or any of Gibson's other books.
Basically this is a bump

BeardofPants · 07-28-2004, 04:31 PM

Yep, I've read it, and it was one of those books you come away from with a feeling of having your world-perspective slightly skewed - it was that damned good. I haven't read any of his other stuff yet, but I'm going to once I clear some more of my reading list.

zinnite · 07-28-2004, 11:02 PM

It's one of my favorites, and the few others I've read by him are also great. I have all his books, and am slowly working my way through them. Good good stuff!

The Gaffer · 08-05-2004, 07:24 AM

Yes, read it and a few others.

He's probably the best of the cyberpunk type authors, though I wonder if the genre is starting to date at bit. All that virtual reality stuff is starting to look like a 1980s vision of what 2020 would be like.

Carafin · 08-09-2004, 06:45 PM

Well I just finished Mona Lisa Overdrive, and it features basically a continuation of the story of .... well society, after the merger of the two AI's in Neuromancer. It is interesting, his views on the future.

BeardofPants · 08-17-2004, 12:41 AM

How does it compare to Neuromancer?

Carafin · 08-26-2004, 01:15 PM

well I liked it a lot, but it didn't have some of the depth that Neuomancer had, with the stuff that really got you thinking about AI's and society. I think it was more of a....action adventure type of thing(although there was some deeper stuff...just, I guess not as much)
Hope that helps (and I hope it makes sense!

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07-28-2004, 09:33 AM	#1
Carafin Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: The warm (or West) coast of Canada Posts: 150	Neuromancer or William Gibson? I'm jukst wondering if anyone else has read Neuromancer in particular, since I just finished it and found it good. __________________ Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo; a star shines on the hour of our meeting, - LotR (FotR) four be the things I'd be better off without, love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt Queen Guinevere? ... Though all to ruin fell the world, And were dissolved and backward hurled, Unmade into the old abyss, Yet were its making good for this, The dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea, That Luthien for a time shoud be ~ ~Beren: The Song of Parting

07-28-2004, 03:42 PM	#2
Carafin Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: The warm (or West) coast of Canada Posts: 150	Sorry I have such bad spelling and clarity problems, I just read Neuromancer by William Gibson, and I'm wondering if anyone else has read Neuromancer or any of Gibson's other books. Basically this is a bump __________________ Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo; a star shines on the hour of our meeting, - LotR (FotR) four be the things I'd be better off without, love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt Queen Guinevere? ... Though all to ruin fell the world, And were dissolved and backward hurled, Unmade into the old abyss, Yet were its making good for this, The dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea, That Luthien for a time shoud be ~ ~Beren: The Song of Parting

07-28-2004, 04:31 PM	#3
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Yep, I've read it, and it was one of those books you come away from with a feeling of having your world-perspective slightly skewed - it was that damned good. I haven't read any of his other stuff yet, but I'm going to once I clear some more of my reading list. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

07-28-2004, 11:02 PM	#4
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	It's one of my favorites, and the few others I've read by him are also great. I have all his books, and am slowly working my way through them. Good good stuff! __________________ A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot

08-09-2004, 06:45 PM	#6
Carafin Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: The warm (or West) coast of Canada Posts: 150	Well I just finished Mona Lisa Overdrive, and it features basically a continuation of the story of .... well society, after the merger of the two AI's in Neuromancer. It is interesting, his views on the future. __________________ Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo; a star shines on the hour of our meeting, - LotR (FotR) four be the things I'd be better off without, love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt Queen Guinevere? ... Though all to ruin fell the world, And were dissolved and backward hurled, Unmade into the old abyss, Yet were its making good for this, The dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea, That Luthien for a time shoud be ~ ~Beren: The Song of Parting

08-05-2004, 07:24 AM	#5
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Yes, read it and a few others. He's probably the best of the cyberpunk type authors, though I wonder if the genre is starting to date at bit. All that virtual reality stuff is starting to look like a 1980s vision of what 2020 would be like.

08-17-2004, 12:41 AM	#7
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	How does it compare to Neuromancer? __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

08-26-2004, 01:15 PM	#8
Carafin Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: The warm (or West) coast of Canada Posts: 150	well I liked it a lot, but it didn't have some of the depth that Neuomancer had, with the stuff that really got you thinking about AI's and society. I think it was more of a....action adventure type of thing(although there was some deeper stuff...just, I guess not as much) Hope that helps (and I hope it makes sense! ) __________________ Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo; a star shines on the hour of our meeting, - LotR (FotR) four be the things I'd be better off without, love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt Queen Guinevere? ... Though all to ruin fell the world, And were dissolved and backward hurled, Unmade into the old abyss, Yet were its making good for this, The dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea, That Luthien for a time shoud be ~ ~Beren: The Song of Parting

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