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Burning Chrome

LoLth · 1999-04-09 23:11:00

Wow! I just finished it (haven't read it before). What an excellent book. I can't say that I like ALL of the shorts but I liked most of them. Dogfight is great but a bit preachy, Burning Chrome itself is great (I thought Rikki was a young Molly). Johnny Moronic, sorry, mnemonic, was actually quite good (the film was a bit…

10-04-1999 12:11AM

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LoLth

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Wow! I just finished it (haven't read it before). What an excellent book. I can't say that I like ALL of the shorts but I liked most of them.

Dogfight is great but a bit preachy, Burning Chrome itself is great (I thought Rikki was a young Molly). Johnny Moronic, sorry, mnemonic, was actually quite good (the film was a bit of a turkey)!

I would recommend that people read this BEFORE Neuromancer. It will set up the book nicely and little bits from the stories will turn up in the book.

And my next book is.....

Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass. Haven't read thse in ages!

Jub-Jub!

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