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Old 04-06-2015, 10:28 AM   #1
Danost
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Need Recommendations Re. Cyberpunk?

So a friend of mine recently turned me on to Shadowrun- which is, for those of you who haven't run into this, a tabletop game about a magic/cyberpunk universe. Naturally, I got into it incredibly well. My friend then recommended three books supposedly in the cyberpunk genre. As I work stacking boxes for a grocery store I need something to listen to, and have been consuming audiobooks at an incredible rate, I grabbed his solutions and tried 'em out. Here's what happened:

Neuromancer: Not bad! The ending was a pretty unfulfilling, but not bad.

Snow Crash: Guh. The writing was awkward (There's moments where characters are in two places at the same time somehow, and other problems), the characters felt one dimensional, and I gave up halfway through when the fifteen gear old girl bonked some guy old enough to be her father.

A Scanner Darkly: Gave up relatively quickly. If I wanted to hear people talk about drugs, how to get more drugs, how they need drugs and what they'll do with drugs- as well as crazy conspiracy junk- I'd listen to my coworkers.

Anyone got any other suggestions? I'm dying here!
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