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Gibson expertly hooks the reader and takes them for an incredible journey through an unknown universe. Great story, written in gibson's own unique style and cadence. What really shines about gibson is his great vision.
Mona lisa overdrive is the third book in william gibson's neuromancer cyberpunk trilogy. It takes place after the wrenching cyberspace events of neeromancer and the resulting turmoil in count zero. This book is a must read for those who are into the n... Read More
A sublime creation, unable to disengage back into the tedium of the known. Third book connects the story over time in a timeless manner, read now in the future he wrote then. Four different lives come together here in a great if mysterious tale.
The characters fill in the range between tough and heart-wrenching, cool and despicable. Well developed characters and smarter than sf typical writing distinguish this future world of web based hazards and new illicit drugs. I believe these novels tra... Read More
Recommended for those whose minds are titillated by these challenges. It is just so dang poetic, and so so fun to read. Re-reading selectively, with the intent of mining more cyber-insight from these books, rather than rushing through them is very rew... Read More
Cons
Gibson's sprawl trilogy consists of a seminal science fiction classic, followed by a fairly good but uninspired sequel. This paperback though, is bad. This one doesn't.
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Using crude reductive analogies if neuromancer was a roller coaster and count zero was a corporate espionage thriller then mona lisa overdrive is landing a helicopter filled with corporate spies on a roller coaster track
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Seminal cyberpunk from the guy who invented the term
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Shed love the poetry of it but im not sure it stands on its own without reading the first two
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Im really not one to pick apart a story dissection is better left to the professionals
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This trilogy is something that a young person will enjoy but will not appreciate how ground breaking it was when it was written
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This work must be interpreted there are several streams of plot lines which converge later in the book but nonetheless seem incoherent to the point of incomprehensibility
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Gibson deserves the phillip k
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Devour every book he writes as though it is the best meal you have ever eaten
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