BigMan answers “Is it normal to be totally confused about...”

Amber asked this question about Neuromancer (Sprawl #1):

Is it normal to be totally confused about what's going on? Because I am.

BigMan Yeah. It took me a long time to understand this book. Gibson explains things through conversations where there's very little exposition within the con…moreYeah. It took me a long time to understand this book. Gibson explains things through conversations where there's very little exposition within the conversation. Molly explaining her snuff-film situation is a good example - there's no explicit explanation of what happened to her, but you get a really vivid understanding of it through their conversation and you begin to piece it together as the conversation progresses.(less)

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