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Re:Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 by jszymborski on Sunday July 13, 2025 @10:48AM (#44550827)
I'm by no means a quick reader and I devoured Neuromancer. I really had zero problem parsing the introduced words. Easier even than A Clockwork Orange.

My experience reading A Scanner Darkly was super painful. Switched to audiobook and quit quickly even then.

> I want a good story, not spectacle. Neuromancer was a spanking good story.

Agreed, but the prose are also so beautiful. This is not some garden variety pulp (not that there is anything wrong with pulp)

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Re:Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 by allthedatas on Sunday July 13, 2025 @12:41PM (#44551631)
The prose immediately made me think of a clockwork orange when I read it way back. Two of my favorites and that is a big reason. Not easy to pull off.
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