Breck, I agree on the cyberpunk genre tending to be dark and gritty but note the titles you mention are Neal Stephenson not Gibson. Definitely try Gibson if you like cyberpunk, though not everyone likes even that old master. Stephenson has way more intentional humor and writer's ego in his books. He has the sort of phrases that editors normally cull but Neal somehow gets away with them (and mostly pulls it off).
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