[arrakis2021]

Snow crash and Neuromancer are two well known must reads. I remember once hearing someone compare the 2 authors styles in that Neal Stephenson sounds like a hacker trying to be a great writer, and William Gibson sounds like a great writer trying to write like a hacker.

[tomjen3]

Attempted to get through Neuromancer, but (minor spoiler) when they started to switch persons around it got too confusing and I realized that it might have worked for a movie, but not a book. I also realized that I was only reading it because it was such a famous book, not because I was getting anything out of it, so I stopped.

Just putting this out in case anybody else feels the same pressure.

[WalterGR]

Gibson's writing style is quite... disorienting.

It took me a few read-throughs of Neuromancer until I felt like I got everything.