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"The thing about illegally breeding fire-breathing possums is that you gotta keep a bucket of water handy."

*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*

(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)

Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!

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From: (Anonymous)

Reading this just makes me want to put it down and write. Aaaaaargh I'll never finish this chapter. And it's chapter 3.

From: (Anonymous)

though I do empathise with this guy's desire to get back on the internet.

From: (Anonymous)

1/3 through. It's got a bit better, though he still can't write women, and he can't write Turks.

From: (Anonymous)

I really get the impression this is the author's travel diary; that he is a pedestrian nerd who went "what if, instead of me staying at this hotel, it was some cool gang of thieves?" So it's detailed descriptions of all the Hiltons he stayed at with some ninjas spliced in.

From: (Anonymous)

I do like his description of the wasps' nest.

From: (Anonymous)

Nearly finished. It does improve as it goes on, albeit with some embarassingly male-writer aspects. main female character is a leather-pants-wearing murderous-ex-prostitute who bangs the main male character (a hacker) in between spates of breasting boobily. This book would be much better if the woman were the hacker and the man were "trotting" down corridors in leather pants and grabbing at his own nipples. but yeah, other things that I like wouldn't exist without this stumbling its way into being. I'm just sour that this is much better-known than Body of Glass.

From: (Anonymous)

And I do like the way he names things. I prolly sound snarkier toward it than I actually am, just had it hyped to hell and back.

From: (Anonymous)

Yeah, I think my overall opinion on it is probably similar to yours. I think it's a good book to have read at some point in time, but I don't think I'd reread it.

Kind of how I feel about the Bible, too, but much more localized to a specific subgenre.

From: (Anonymous)

Ayrt

I also don't like how everyone in this book rips the sleeves off their jackets. Why would you do that? There's nothing worse than having cold arms!

(Maybe it's because they're shooting up all the time)

(I still need to read the bible. No idea when I'll read it, since more or less everything else is more appealing)

From: (Anonymous)

SA

Finished! Did enjoy overall, though... For me, this isn't really scifi. Like, I kept seeing it being compared to philip k dick, but pkd's got this whole freaky spiritual dimension that neuromancer just lacks. And the computery side of neuromancer is pure fantasy. As I was reading, I was reminded more of travel memoirs, relationship memoirs. The story feels more like "junky writing about women he's loved, real and imagined", with a scifi paintjob. Some of this feel may be because I'm reading it 40 years late. But yeah, didn't get the metaphysical hit I normally get from scifi. Reminded me more of gonzo journalism. If you want long and detailed descriptions of amphetamine trips, he's got you covered. If you're there for physics or metaphysics, you'll be left rolling your eyes while he has boring sex *again*. Overall it's fun but it's not that deep, and would work much better as a film, especially if you did it as some kinda vr hybrid. But yeah, did see various ghost in the shell things first, which I'm guessing took ideas from neuromancer and presented them better. :P

From: (Anonymous)

Sa

Also tbf I'm shit at reading; I gather the fletcher was meant to be a futuristic gun but I pictured something more like a cattle-prod and got confused.

From: (Anonymous)

SA

Just read an article, confirmed my suspicion that he knew about computers lol

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was