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  <title><![CDATA[Biochips. Zweiter Roman der Neuromancer-Trilogie]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would perhaps complain that the ending was a bit to <em>deus ex machina</em> for my taste, but then the entire book is wound around the theme of god being in the machine.  From the vodou <em>loa</em> who seemingly possess various characters and steer the entire plot; to the mad European trillionare who has reached ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53615765">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the middle book of the Sprawl Trilogy by Gibson (in between Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive), and my absolute favorite.  The other two are largely action-based, and this one had a lot of that but also a lot of beautiful descriptions, somewhat mystically-oriented plotlines, and it really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66016105">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fast paced, complicated thriller that splices a future where people surf the web by direct brain patches. Several sets of characters are followed as they join or escape the corporate blogesphere. Count Zero is a kid who wants to get out of the boring Jersey suburbs and hussle his way into money. Ang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50733095">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good sequel to Neuromancer, not as mind blowing though. It took me a long time to read. The beginning jumped between three stories and didn't really start to connect the dots between them until the second half. Some good action scenes and one or two memorable characters. I'll probably read more Gibs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36793142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69612853">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is part of Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy.  As a result, the ideas <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/947.William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Gibson</a> present here are radical and difficult to grasp and he puts no effort forth into explaining them.  It helps that I've read some of his other works that help to understand his concept of cyberspace and brain-machine linking to tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69612853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic sci-fi in the cyberpunk mould, second in the groundbreaking series beginning with Neuromancer and ending with Mona Lisa Overdrive; however, Count Zero, as the other books, stands alone. Set in the same future post-war dystopic milieu, this story weaves together the tales of Bobby, Marly and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66415255">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My problem with a lot of genre fiction is that when not wholly unimaginative, it is often too restrained and quasi-literary to take full advantage of the opportunities open to it. Not so here. Gibson shows a rare willingness to plunge as far into his crazed techno-mythology as I could reasonably hop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63588512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[well this guy his name is turner and he is a corporate mercenary and he wakes up in a reactivated body. The hosoka corporation the place where he works for reactivates him for a different mission that is more dangerous than the mission that he was recovering from. The mission is Turner has to save t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80335164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[another trip to the Sprawl and a worthy sequel to &quot;Neuromancer&quot;...<br/><br/>short plot description: set a couple of years after the events of &quot;Neuromancer&quot; we follow three seemingly unrelated plots. Turner is a mercenary whose speciality is assisting key employees leaving their...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31534842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like I've read the Sprawl series as a set of flashbacks. I started with the most recent, Mona Lisa Overdrive, slammed all the way back to Nueromancer, and then wound up filling in the final blanks in the middle. I don't know if it's because I have all the pieces now or just the way this one w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29434932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Neuromancer twice:  once in college (hated it); once as a young adult (loved it).  I think I finished Neuromancer the second time around 1999 or 2000.  Now that I'm way into science fiction again (total buying spree, both new and used), I figured I'd take a crack at Gibson again.  I started w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11796824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is largely an exercise of style over substance--which may sound like a put-down, but should be taken as acknowledgment that this book's purpose appears primarily to set a mood. In it, Gibson explores new dimensions of the cyberpunk aesthetic he helped pioneer in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Neuromancer" title="Neuromancer">Neuromancer</a>, the first boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2966148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's some interesting ideas in among all of this: the voodoo gods living in cyberspace, the sentient computer in the abandoned satellite that makes art out of found and abandoned objects... Count Zero was interesting enough to keep me going, but not much more than that.<br/><br/>The story's tol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2809381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If the first few pages don't grab you... hell, if the first couple paragraphs don't grab you, don't bother. With Gibson, you must be willing to do some of the work. His words imply paragraphs. Here, let me show you the first page and a half:<br/><br/>&quot;They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/930392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Neuromancer, the way this book is written is almost as interesting - or possibly more so - than what is actually written. The story doesn't flow as nicely as Neuromancer, and there are, in fact, three separate stories which took me quite a while to get into as they jumped around a bit. About ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45201834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Count Zero, William Gibson combines the gritty cyberpunk world of his groundbreaking masterpiece, Neuromancer, with the existence of arcane magic, and a thrilling dynamic plot overall.  The addition of fantasy elements in this case only adds to the greater picture, and in no way detracts from the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41252748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing’s tight, the proposed future is sufficiently realized and stylized, all gritty and noir, but it just leaves me cold. Characterization seemed to be lacking, and I just didn’t much care what happened to anyone in the end, whereas I very much did with Neuoromancer, which seemed a much m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61735349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is the sequel to NEUROMANCER, part of a trilogy set in the near future ... it was written in 1984 (an auspicious year for alternate futures) &amp; predicts the creation of CYBERSPACE &amp; something he calls THE MATRIX. sound familiar? he also has an uncanny take on the banking industry &amp; it's inh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71596414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer" title="Neuromancer by William Gibson">Neuromancer</a> was just brilliant, Count Zero coasts quite a bit on the strength of Gibson's amazing world, with a somewhat meandering and pointless story. Fortunately, he has an amazing world already set up to coast on, so I still come back and read it every few years.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54575104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say? I love Gibson's books, and this is one of the ones that ties into some of the others. I don't think I'd recommend it as one of the first to read to understand the universe. I thought the &quot;cyber&quot; part was a little less innovative than in other books (if you've read the other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44077896">more...</a>]]></body>
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