This book left me out in the cold. Neuromancer has done something to me which no other novel ever has and that is that after finishing reading it I felt cheated by all the reviewers and reviews they posted extolling its virtues. Case, a talent par excellence, is a man down on his luck scraping together a life on the seedy streets of Chiba. He harbours a wish to see his shadow of a life come to some sort of an end, anything which will ease the day to day existence of his mundane life. Case has fallen and fallen hard. After having his biology modified so as to render him unable to jack in to the landscapes of the matrix by his ex employers after they found out he very stupidly and arrogantly stole from them, his life has no meaning. His run of bad luck comes to an end when a dangerous and mysterious man called Armitage, accompanied by a beautiful assassin named Molly, offer him a miraculous treatment for his condition if he is willing to do their bidding without question. He complies all to eagerly as the lure of cyberspace and the opportunities to become rich beyond his wildest dreams is a digital siren's song he is unable to resist. The pace of the novel is frenetic and contains some acts of barbarism, although it is not a gratuitous novel. Gibson's narrative at times is unparalleled but so unevenly distributed it made me want to skip reading certain passages. After having finished reading Neuromancer I wondered if perhaps, I had totally missed some of the finer points supposedly represented in this work of highly praised, sometimes lavishly praised, cyberpunk novel of the twentieth century. My final sentiment is that Neuromancer is one the most unbelievably overrated books of all time.

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