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Why I Want to See Neuromancer: A Confession Posted at 7:48 PM by Rico Simpkins

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NeuromancerThis 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.