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3.0 out of 5 stars
The story is great it's the art I have a problem with, June 21, 2000
This review is from: Neuromancer (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoy the book Neuromancer, and was really excited when I found a copy of the graphic novel in a used book store in my home town. Since it was sealed I could not look inside until I got home. I must say I was truly dissapointed with the poor art work. I realize the story is the thing, but I bought a graphic novel for the graphics, I already have the text version, and would have stuck with it had I known the art work would be so bad. There is no excuse for a novel of such high quality to have such a low standard of art. While the street scenes and inside scenes looked good the people were lacking. I thought that the character Molly Millions was drawn especially poorly. She looks like Sylvester Stallone in drag most of the time. I am sorry to say this graphic novel was a dissapointment.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Tech noir, January 12, 2008
This review is from: Neuromancer (Mass Market Paperback)
De Haven and Jensen have gotten Neuromancer off to a screaming start. It starts with a dark street in a dark city, with Case looking for a place where everyone's an outsider, so he can get drunk among people with at least that much in common. A deal went bad, and the bad guys scorched his brain in revenge. He can think and feel well enough, but they cut him off forever from what he lived for: the Matrix. It's the electronic astral plane where adepts project their spirits, to live out dramas and intrigues realer than real.
Then someone offers him a chance to return - for a price.
This thin volume begins the adaptation of Gibson's epochal novel. Gibson himself introduces this volume, and says that it captures the mood and feel that he tried to embody in words. It's a fair effort, even if the art isn't world-class, but leaves me wishing for the unwritten sequels that would have rendered the rest of the original book.
-- wiredweird
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a vivid translation, better than the Johnny Mnemonic movie, May 11, 1997
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This review is from: Neuromancer (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm fortunate to have a copy of this. It covers the first third or so of Neuromancer. It's a shame they didn't continue it.
Other William Gibson rarities and short stories at my complete bibliography/mediagraphy, http://www.slip.net/~spage/gibson/biblio.ht
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