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?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    If you don’t like it, don’t read it.

    I personally liked it from the start, but it’s got a style that’s not easy. Also, a lot of it is very dated, so when you read about things like pocket sized VCRs it won’t make much sense.

    • BennyInc@feddit.orgOP
      2·
      29 days ago

      As a 90s kid I can still relate to the dated stuff somehow. But some of it is genuinely funny 😄

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        4·
        29 days ago

        In “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” the computer has gained self-awareness. It was already running all the computer operations for Luna. The hardest thing it had to do was create CGIs.

        There was snail mail sent by starship in ‘Starship Troopers.’

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
            2·
            28 days ago

            I forgot that detail. I do remember they talked about him using ‘computer paper.’ We had a machine that used that stuff on my job. I think they finally got rid of it around 2012.