Neuromancer

After re-reading it and then jumping straight into the sequels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive some things clicked and I have some thoughts. Especially about how badass it is.

(I'll skip over the normal review stuff. You probably already have an idea what the book is about and there are others who can tell it better.)

The hitch the first time I tried reading this book was what an '80s straight-to-VHS action flick it was. Now that is why I love it extra. Don't get me wrong, it is still a great dystopian neon-drenched cyberpunk novel, seminal and dripping with nihilistic multinational corporations, kaleidoscopic metropolises and groundbreaking takes on a post-human corporatized not-too-distant future. You just have to get that of course everything is more badass if everyone is wearing shades, huge one-bullet-bomb guns and talking in chopped up catch-phrases.

Although it might not be the Blade Runner I expected way back when, or the Total Recall that is in the other end of this new cyberpunk spectrum I have invented, it does slot neatly somewhere in-between. If you can reconcile your Rutger Hauer with your Arnold Schwarzenegger the cinematic experience surely must approximate any SimStim Sense/Net might cook up.