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Neuromancer
Simulacra:
I own them all (except for The Difference Engine which he didn't write, he just supplied a lot of the ideas, so i didn't like it as much.) I suggest reading the two previously mentioned series and then reading Burning Chrome, which is a lot of his early short stories and contains Johnny Mnemonic. If you do that you can see how his ideas evolved over time. it's pretty cool. but yeah, if you haven't read a lot or been exposed to varying different writing styles, you might have a little trouble with his imagery at first. he tends to use words to describe concepts that you would never have associated with each other before. For instance, first line of Neuromancer: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." cool huh? he's my fave.
Bunnyman:
Agreed...Gibson is a masterful wordsmith.
The Bridge Trilogy is excellent, if only because he crafts some truly fantastic settings, insane (read: loveable) characters, and cool ideas. All three books read like Gibson pouring ten years of notebook scribblings into novel form, with a flimsy plot to tie it all together. Fine stuff.
zmeiat_joro:
I don't like Gibson too much, although I read an awful lot of science fiction. So he's not everyone's kind of thing. That said, Idoru I managed to read; that didn't happen with Neuromancer or some others that I only got a few pages in. Also, I dind't realise Gibson was involved in The Difference Engine, which I've been meaning to read for a while now. Now Bruce Sterling I do like a lot.
El Opium:
I've read Neuromancer and Burning Chrome. Count Zero is currently one foot away from my left hand; sitting at a forty-five degree angle, until I get around to reading it. Gibson is great, but I've been finding myself bowled over by the amount of literary attention he is getting. I met a guy who was about to [i[Neuromancer[/i] for post-modern fiction class, though he did imply that Gibson would be somewhat of a break after reading William S. Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon.
hoax:
I read Pattern Recognition for a class on new media. I thought it was cool but haven't had time to read anything else by him--maybe this summer.
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