A rather wobbly monument ...

As highlighted by several people, going into this book deserves anything is not as tight in its content that I have ever read. But Gibson's writing has a lot. I do not know if this is due to the translation that I read, but his very descriptive style me gen. Nominal sentences pile up and keep coming way too impromptu and drown the reader in the teeming and surreal descriptions on details that do not interest many people. They often want to give a transcript of the mood or feelings or even emotional states of the protagonists, without really being intelligible ... and too often pollute understanding of the action. I know some fans will find me and unfair to castigate his style, but that's really what I was most disturbed.
Because, in contrast, he manages to portray people with marked features and cut to precision tools, a disturbing endearing, although they are marginal, drug addicts, madmen or assassins. The action scenes are quite dynamic and Gibson style manages to immerse ourselves in the momentum of characters devoured by their adrenaline, the price always some descriptions without much interest for either action or for history.

In short, you'll understand that for me is a little too Gibson balzaquien without necessarily mastering the art of surround description as Balzac did brilliantly. This book deserved a little stylistic relief and there would be a timeless classic as "Clans of the Moon Alphane". Trying too hard to immerse ourselves, it does not give us the comfort and provision of personal imagination where certain details are unconsciously completed the picture, like a dream. It's a pity because it gives us really matter to graft our little delusions imaginative science fiction anticipatory. His fiction is rich soil, but a little too well guarded at times.

Which reinforces my idea that Gibson has lingered too long in his descriptions sometimes on the verge of delirium, taking some of his characters (really) many substances, or the limit of the special catalog fashion / interior design Moderno- minimalistico-experimental, is the fact that in another work of Gibson, 'Idoru' I just started, the descriptive style is still present but much less intrusive. Several people, readers and publishers have had to point out to him and he has given to our great reading comfort.

Finally, what really left a bad impression is its small end half fig half grape, seemed to say "I do everything I can so we can not say that it is neither a happy ending or a sad end "with the very last phrase that has only served to leave me a note of remorse from the perspective of the main character of this remorse that pursue you until the last day of your life when you say "why I did not try!" ... very unpleasant way to end a book, in addition to leaving on my side final confrontation hunger tarried always delayed by endless descriptions of interiors and furniture. Mr. Gibson will never win the prize for the best ending for that book. His refusal to decide more clearly the end makes me say that this book does not deserve all the legend that the halo, unless this book is intended only to be the guide of "the first steps in the cyberpunk culture." But as I do not really see what there is cyberpunk in a sloppy end ...

A monument? I would not go that far. A classic of the genre? Probably, but the style repel more than one in the first pages.