Unsure. I have to admit that reading this book I often felt a little lost as to what was happening and why, but just carried on to enjoy the ride.
Reading a book that so significantly influenced modern cinema such as The Matrix and the like, it's interesting to read the descriptions of movement in and out of the matrix (little-m).
I'm also not entirely sure how the book ended, and without the final chapter which tidied up a few things, I would have been rather lost and confused!!!
Good ride. Not sure I'm too bothered about the trilogy, but I would try another William Gibson book in future.
9 Highlights
By day, the bars down Ninsei were shuttered and featureless, the neon dead, the holograms inert, waiting, under the poisoned silver sky.
It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need.
tangible wave of longing hit him, lust and loneliness riding in on the wavelength of amphetamine.
There was no smoking on shuttle flights.
Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop;
'It's the ganja,' Molly said, when Case told her the story. 'They don't make much of a difference between states, you know? Aerol tells you it happened, well, it happened to him. It's not like bullshit, more like poetry.
Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic
Maelcum was purring a speeded-up patois to his radio
'Wonderful,' the Flatline said, 'I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards.'