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Why is Neuromancer so hard to get in to? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/sciencefiction

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I just started reading Neuromancer, and finished the first two chapters. Can someone encourage me to keep on reading? It’s just so… disorienting. Very quick scene changes, hard to follow dialogues (who is actually talking?), too much jargon (I have read up on some, to get the gist), … I just feel lost, and doubt I will enjoy it at some point.

I like various degrees of scifi, and many people recommended the book (and the ones following it). I also fought through some harder chapters in Trisolaris, Children of Memory, The Expanse books, CS Lewis‘ Space Trilogy, … but Neuromancer is on awholenother level.

Is it just me? Did anyone else have a hard time with it? Does it get better? Is it worth it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I finished it. I'll reread it again someday. Not bad for science fiction. Lol imagine reading it in 1984 when it was written.

[–] BlueHarvest 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

i read it just a couple of years after it came out, it took me several reads to get into it but has become one of my favorites. That said, some of it, like the opening line, probably doesn't make sense to younger people... "The sky above the Port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel" evoked a completely different mental image in the days before digital TVs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Man how did the concepts of ai differ back then did you have idea or was it just space magic?

[–] BlueHarvest 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

100% sci fi magic, but the visuals he describes of cyberspace still are how i imagine it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That is the talent in sci Fi making me visualize and understand the magic.

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