A review by itzami
Neuromancer by William Gibson

4.0

Once I finished 'Neuromancer' I went to my phone and Googled 'Neuromancer is confusing' and I started seeing what people were saying about it.

I was ready to give this book a bad rating because I couldn't understand most of it but then it struck me: the story is being told from Case's (the main character) POV and that means that I wasn't going to get a deep description of everything around him (technologies, jargon and so on) because he was already familiar with it. That ended up intriguing me...
I'm used to having a character tell me everything I need to know about a scene but that's not very realistic. The characters wouldn't end up hovering over every single detail because they would be familiar with most of it and that's what makes Neuromancer different.

Neuromancer throws you right at the thick of it and expects you to just go with it. You learn as you go. There are expressions and words that you'll never know what they are but that's what's great about Science Fiction: you can create your own ideas based on what the author wrote!

The book doesn't get 5 stars from me because it does what I wrote above TOO WELL. I had a hard time grasping what was going around me and I finished the book feeling confused and disoriented...

But I also had the feeling of wanting to read it again just so I could better understand its world!

And that means that it was a fantastic book!