Neuromancer | Book Club

April 30, 2026

 

Pretty challenging read. The whole club agreed. Dense. Lots of imagery without much time to process whats going on. I ended up reading several pages multiple times and still was playing catch up. I took four four hour flights and still couldn't finish it until the last minute. 


Comparisons have been made repeatedly about the Noir/Chandler/etc influences and I guess I see it but that feels overblown. I enjoyed the caper but the characters seemed flat to me. One dimensional in a multi-dimensional world. Could have been the juxtoposition I suppose... or the fact that I hear and see William Powell when any noir is mentioned.