Neuromancer (William Gibson)

Overcomplicated and tough to follow, this book may have invented the cyberpunk genre but it's still pants!

It was better than you think it was! It was his first book and so his style is a little (a lot?) rough around the edges. It wasn't nearly as cliched when it was written as it might seem now. Still his other books are better.

I liked it, but I'm not going to waste precious time arguing for it, it's not worth that much effort!

Well, I didn't really like this much. The characterisation was my biggest problem with it - there wasn't any. But I guess it's a cliche full of cliched protagonists because it was there first and has been much imitated (and also lovingly near-parodied by Neal Stephenson).

Obviously at the time it came out this was a revolutionary piece. The grandaddy of cyberpunk. The book suffers, however, from horrendous characterisation and a totally mundane plot which would merrit any other book one star. I'll give it two though for the sake of it's importance in spawning a genre that I really enjoy.

Would have worked much better as a technical paper. For a decent book in the same style see Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.