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Why I Want to See Neuromancer: A Confession
This is a little embarrassing to admit. I didn’t totally understand Neuromancer. It’s a great novel. It garners 4 out of 5 stars by the 300 WWEnders who have read it, which I assume means they grasped it better than I did. Don’t get me wrong, though. I did enjoy reading it (Gibson has a beautifully poetic writing style), but I think I may have read it too quickly. Life in cyberspace, after all, is inherently esoteric. He’s describing techology that didn’t exist yet, so his names for everything are different from we might call them now.
That is why I’m more interested in the upcoming movie than I usually would be. I don’t just want to see a great book recreated on the silver screen….I want to see what the hell it was all about! Recently, it’s been revealed that Mark Wahlberg and Liam Neeson have been tapped to help explain this novel to me.
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When is this due to come out? I wonder if they’re going to compress the whole “Sprawl Trilogy” series (or a bastardized adaptation of it) into a single movie or if they’re going do a movie per book.
I’ve read it about 15 times. What questions do you have? E-mail me.
Read it again. And then again. Check out the graphic novel, that might help. And then come to us, but by then, you shouldn’t need to.
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