I am still not quite sure what to think

Part of me enjoyed and loved the book, the other part was quite confused about what was actually going on.

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Dazzling but opaque, with hammy narration

William Gibson's techolust fever dream is creatively novel as it is near impenetrable. At times you wish his obsession with descriptive writing was as equally applied to his story beats. This is not an easy listen. But worth a go, particularly if you're a fan of the genre.

Narration overall is OK, but the awful US and Jamaican accents are as distracting as they as regrettable. A more judicious editor would have had a quiet word and advised against it.

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Great book. reader not so much

performance started lacking in second half. microphone picking up outside conversations. isolate the reading booth better. it started getting very distracting by the end. low rumble speaking overlapping the reader.

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Easily the best audiobook version

I've tried to get into this as an audiobook previously and it just didn't work. Flemyng's narration is spot on and made this an easy listen, engaging, and well presented.

I really hope he's doing the other books in the series too

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Can't follow it

It's a complete mess. So hard to know what is going on, feels like characters have multiple names, people pop from nowhere with no explanation. Narrator is far too fast and not distinct enough in transitions. Generally feels like it needed 20% more content to ground you and explain what was going on and for the narrator to be clearer.

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lost

struggled to keep track of all the characters and where they were some chapters really jumped
Good story though just had to wrap my head round the time line a bit

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Alot to take in that lack clarity of performance

This is a very difficult book to get into when not being read from the page. Lots of niche terms and slang. The kind of book you need to re read sections and click back to check.
Books like this need a clearer delivery, the punctuation and enunciation are so important to give context and clarity. There are also a number of sloppy edits and corrections that don't help.
Jason tries very hard with some very difficult material but it took the shine of for me.

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Still a masterful CyberSpace Sci-Fi classic

Good to re-visit this now, especially with the current concerns over imposing AI restrictions.

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Best yet

I’ve heard the previous Neuromancer audiobooks and this one is the best yet. There’s some very questionable pronunciation of Japanese words but the overall tone is spot on. Hope Flemyng does Count Zero next!

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Of its time

Looked forward to this as a classic of the genre but I struggled to get into it and returned it after half way, having given it a fair crack.
It set a good, visceral atmosphere which put me in mind of classic neon city environments which you'd expect in a cyberpunk genre.
Unfortunately as it went on the word salad of tech words became distracting and slightly cringe-worthy. The dialogue was very much of an 80s action film.
Perhaps it's unfair of me to criticise what must have been revolutionary at the time and perhaps I've been spoiled by subsequent works by the likes of Neal Stephenson.
The narration was a bit "east end" for my liking. Not a bad job, though. Perhaps slightly fast, hence that sensation that the word salad of tech words was just washing over me.

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