(no subject)

[inahandbasket]

it has come to my attention that there are people in this world who have never read Neuromancer (William Gibson) before.
This is unacceptable, and I will make it my personal crusade to hunt down these people wherever they may be.
and maybe foist some more books upon them as the opportunity presents itself if they don't react badly to the initial dose of old skool cyberpunk.

Comments

[cobaltnine.livejournal.com]

In his more recent books (I don't have Quicksilver, and I doubt it would, so leaving that one out) he has had characters that have political/national affiliations that I *really* don't agree with. I don't want to get into it because it's a loaded word, but he is putting some very strangely conservative moral elements as key players (not protagonists, but second-to-the protagonist in a few cases) in his works.

Vague, I know, but it drove me nuts during Crypto.

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

It's also worth noting that he usually represents many different political/social groups in his books... and then takes them to the biggest extreme that he can. Almost like reading an allegory or somesuch. The Big U comes out on top of the list for this one, and Cryptonomicon not all that far behind. Then, of course, you've got to take into account that liberals are all crazy. O:-)

Oh, and that my comment you replied to was deeply rooted in sarcasm.