Neuromancer

I must just be dumb. I have now read two Gibson books in a row, this one being Neuromancer. I find his works VERY hard to follow. They just don't have a plotline I can grasp.

It's not that I demand a linear exposition... I loved It, by King, and that one jumps back and forth from the characters as adults to kids then back to adults. Didn't even phase me.

But this one, again like The Difference Engine, just seems to make random jumps. I've even read the summary of the story on the wikipedia, and I STILL don't get exactly what happened.

Maybe I need to be younger, or cooler, or something. I just don't get it.

Unfortunately, being the completest that I am, I have to at LEAST finish the trilogy.

The Difference Engine

This one I just found to be a complete and utter waste of time. Disjointed, confusing, convoluted, random plot changes, with no flow. I still don't know what the cards did, or why everyone was after them. I'm not sure who lived or who died. I am pretty sure I don't care.

The Amber Spyglass

All in all, I found The Amber Spyglass, and really the whole series, to be over-rated. Yes, they were nice fantasies with cool characters/races of creatures, but in the end, I found the last one a little muddled. There are BILLIONS of other worlds, and everyone ends up in the right one at the end, just in time for the main two characters to hook up and save/destroy the world.

Whatever.

Overrated, self-important junk. The author has said he wants to "kill god", I believe. First, a book isn't going to do that, and second, how are two kids getting together going to cause that to happen?

I don't get it.