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kleinbl00  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tween scifi book recommendation.

I wonder how dated it would feel, but the prose isn't particularly challenging for that reading level, 'sall I'm sayin'.





user-inactivated  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I found the structure or pacing or something quite challenging. It was a struggle to read, kept wanting to put it down. Not the prose, obviously, although Gibson's penchant for teaching you the lingo as you go would surprise your average young adult reader in 2014, I think.

Neuromancer is something you build up to. Read a PKD first, maybe.

kleinbl00  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yikes. Diffrent strokes for diffrent folx. I've finished maybe 20% of all the PKDs I've ever started.

user-inactivated  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you've mentioned that before. It's strange because Neuromancer stirkes me as heavily influenced by Androids, maybe A Scanner Darkly.