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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? May 05
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Hey! I'm one of the people who commented about Troopers. I don't fault you for stopping it, there's a whole chapter in the middle of it where they flashback to gradeschool and all of the kids agree with the teacher that corporal punishment for adults is really the only way to ensure a society doesn't fall apart
Neuromancer is great though! If you ever feel like you don't really understand what's going on that's pretty normal. It takes a couple of reads and even then a lot of the concepts are abstract rather than concrete
Thanks for your comment! It was just too military heavy and dry. I’m a very visual thinker and the writing was quite dry and didn’t grab me at all.
So far I actually like the ‘dropped in the middle’ effect of Neuromancer, as it can be a bit tiring to read through a ton of explanations early on in a story with so much world building. I’d rather discover concepts through context and ‘living’ in the story a bit first. At this time I’m simply blown away by the fact the story was written over 40 years ago, however it’s still early on so that might change.