Neuromancer

I just finished Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Shit, that man is
good. I thought it would be kind of like Neal Stephenson, because he
writes cyberpunk and I'd heard Gibson was like the grandaddy of
cyberpunk. But he makes Stephenson seem like a cheap plastic knockoff.
Seriously, this guy has sentences, paragraphs, sometimes whole pages
that just _sing_. I found myself re-reading those parts compulsively,
gating the rhythm, hearing the words over and over in my head.

I do have to confess though, one thing pissed me off, he had a couple
characters speaking in phonetical and apostrophy-filled jamaican
accents. I know what this winning recipe needs, someone saying "mon"
every third word and dropping articles of speech left and right! Ok,
pet peeve rant, everything else about the book is great, it won both
the Hugo and the Nebula deservedly, so read it.

--k2