false 1163290 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Remembering Tomorrow)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....

]]> 22328 44 909457 book 7 1984 Neuromancer total:23345|5:7844|4:7153|3:5056|2:1795|1:1497| 23345 88087 36328 1076 9226 3.73 53439 3068 14077707 797200 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.76 21756 wrong people...]]> 1984 5 24 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Wed Jan 30 12:55:12 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 13:14:07 -0800 2008
The first time I tried to read Neuromancer, I stopped around page 25.

I was about 15 years old and I’d heard it was a classic, a must-read from 1984. So I picked it up and I plowed through the first chapter, scratching my head the w...more...]]> 13092036 811687 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 2 12 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 15:44:56 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 25 01:53:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1194544 84023 14775 8585887907 52 <![CDATA[Neuromancer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260379286m/14775.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260379286s/14775.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14775.Neuromancer 3.89 315
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....]]> 1984 4 7 false Sun May 13 19:24:28 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:23:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 21596292 834216 313982 0441000681 9780441000685 9 <![CDATA[Neuromancer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223675779m/313982.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223675779s/313982.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313982.Neuromancer 4.02 90 cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....]]> 1984 3 14 false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun May 04 18:00:14 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:27:57 -0800 2008 1 Neuromancer. Neuromancer is a very famous, genre creating/changing book, winner of many awards. I’m reading Neuromancer for the first time; while not quite done, I find the story to...more...]]> 4685996 286714 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 5 6 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1992 Fri Aug 17 07:10:30 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:38:37 -0800 2009 Neuromancer is a definite five.

Neuromancer is the story of a burned-out hacker named Case. Having...more...]]> 12295636 644249 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 4 7 false Fri Jan 11 19:26:15 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 19:42:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 75335761 13779 888628 0441007465 9780441007462 20 <![CDATA[Neuromancer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179199433m/888628.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179199433s/888628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888628.Neuromancer 3.72 165 Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price.]]> 1984 1 4 false Wed Oct 21 22:16:03 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 09 22:09:23 -0800 2009
1. I am a nerd.

(I know this is a shocking revelation from someone who spends most of her free time reading and writing book reviews for pleasure).

My overall personality, compounded by my sheltered religious background (as in, I spent most of my ...more...]]> 38153372 1662632 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 2 4 false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 12:26:36 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 23 21:22:20 -0700 2009 twice now? This was the SciFi selection for the Goodreads SciFi and Fantasy Book Club for the month of December 2008. Visit this link to see all of the discussions, group member reviews, etc.

I had the strangest sense of deja vu throughout this book. Possibly because Gibson tends to recycle ideas, b...more...]]> 27326023 1167793 14775 8585887907 52 <![CDATA[Neuromancer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260379286m/14775.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260379286s/14775.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14775.Neuromancer 3.77 23345
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....]]> 1984 3 5 false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 15 11:26:53 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 06 11:28:36 -0800 2009
Not the best writing I've encountered. When it was written, this stuff was new, edgy, weird. It required a new way of expressing the ideas. Now, it's dated and tired. The book is an historical document.

That doesn't mean it's bad. For those of us w...more...]]> 38055686 899665 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 3 3 false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 11:10:29 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 18:21:40 -0800 2009 1
However, it really hasn't stood the test of time well. If I had read th...more...]]> 16476255 259004 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 5 6 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 26 19:27:35 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 19:40:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2592281 61519 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 2 3 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sun Jul 01 10:19:49 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 23:17:24 -0800 2009 16799908 958634 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 1 2 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 01 18:07:56 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 13 09:54:51 -0700 2008
First, let me just say that I read for entertainment value. Anything else that happens is gravy. That being said- the biggest reason this book is so awful is that Gibson's characters are completely hollow. Gibson makes it up as he goes along. He'll introduce a c...more...]]> 13439068 381149 14775 8585887907 52 <![CDATA[Neuromancer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260379286m/14775.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260379286s/14775.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14775.Neuromancer 3.77 23345
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....]]> 1984 3 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 15:36:49 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 15:07:28 -0800 2008 Neuromancer, the book that started the cyberpunk craze back in the mid-eighties. The first few chapters were so disjointed and deliberately obscure that I wasn't sure what was going on, nor whether I actually cared. Then things gradually started to fall in...more...]]> 10374933 653446 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 2 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 11:04:51 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 19:14:43 -0800 2007 more...]]> 12966649 721021 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 4 2 false Sun Jan 20 11:03:56 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 11:06:21 -0800 2008 47901211 1183993 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 4 2 false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 11:44:06 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 14 15:15:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38396121 417085 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 2 1 false Mon Dec 01 07:38:04 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 13:20:26 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 07:38:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 22992651 126262 14770 0441012035 9780441012039 51 <![CDATA[Neuromancer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14770.Neuromancer 4.04 620 cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....

]]> 1984 3 3 false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon May 26 13:28:13 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 11:35:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 22945689 1148633 22328 0441569595 9780441569595 892 <![CDATA[Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094m/22328.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255932094s/22328.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer 3.77 23345 wrong people...]]> 1984 2 1 false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 18:17:43 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 17:23:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1163290