Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Spectra Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553281743ISBN:0553281747
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Creasing to spine. No Writing. No Highlighting. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 308 p. Bantam Spectra Book. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Spectra Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553281743ISBN:0553281747
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Used; spine creases, edge wear, lower front corner torn, bookstore stamp inside front cover. Good reading copy, pages firmly intact and clean. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 308 p. Bantam Spectra Book. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Spectra
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780553281743ISBN:0553281747
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Spectra
Date Published: 1988-10-01
ISBN-13:9780553052503ISBN:0553052500
Description: Used: Good. HC 1988 DJ may have slight curling or ripping on edge. Most wear comes from storage not from reading. Text is clean Spine is tight. Shipping confirmation. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"Just finished re-reading this, and it hasn't lost anything for me since my first read. It inspires me to conjure up great mental images of some very surrealistic scenes. Gibson really is amazing. The only drawback to the book, from my perspective, are the references to prior stories. I'd have preferred to read (and re-read) them in order. But I'm somewhat compulsive, so that probably wouldn't bother most people."
"I can't tell if I'm too stupid to read William Gibson, or if he doesn't spend enough time explaining his cyberpunk universe.
At least with this book I can fall back on the world I was already introduced to in "Neuromancer", so some of the burden of keeping up with his story is lightened. Neuromancer was both really exciting and incredibly obnoxious because Gibson rarely stops to fully explain the jargon and weirdness of his near-future world. His stories seem to be trying to very strictly maintain the mystery of limited perspective, you don't know anything the character currently doesn't know, and nothing gets explained that the character wouldn't personally need to understand.
Maybe I'm just a spoiled baby, but I feel like a few extra lines of exposition here and there would have made this book vastly better. It's a pretty cool neo-noir world with interesting characters and a whole lot of atmosphere. It's just a shame that I can't always explain what the story was after I'm finished without consulting the wikipedia summary of the story to make sure I wasn't completely misunderstanding things."
"I always find Gibson engrossing and this book was no exception. The ending lacked some coherence, the Japanese stuff was generally laughable, but overall the world and the people in it were well worth the read. (And you have to give the man credit for attempting to balance so many perspectives.)"
"While the first book of this trilogy was phenomenal, the second and third left me a bit flat. They're still good books, but they suffer from Sequel Syndrome IMO.
--spoilers!--
Still worth reading, great story altogether, but I was disappointed they didn't really pick up the joining of the AIs from the first. That was almost a forgotten thing. It just seemed very stilted with so many stories going at once. The people who you cared about were a little cardboard, the people you started to care about (the little girl, Mona) were all but forgotten at the end.
I can totally see where the Matrix got it's ideas from though!"
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