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Oh, NEUROMANCER! Where have you been all my life?

This book is friggin' cray-cray! (Also: "Jiz" might be the most unfortunate nickname... ever.)

Slowly, but surely. It's pretty great though.

Super-long road trip with an audiobook of this blasting on the stereo. Yeah, this is gonna be awesome.

God, I can't wait for this book to be over...

Yowza!

I'm gonna need a couple of stiff drinks to get through this one.

A brutal, sleazy black comedy stuck on berserker mode. Positively deranged. A spoonful of sadism makes the pop-Freudianism go down. My summer of pulps begins with a bang.

I've gotten a little sidetracked. A momentary pause, but I WILL finish this.

Oh, damn, you guys. This book is pretty terrific.

Hoo boy... here we go.

Slowly but surely. Yes, I still think this book is terrible, but at least I now know scholarly opinion largely sides with me on this one.

Not a book to be consumed in a single sitting. I have to read this in short, staccato bursts, or else get swallowed up in all that darkness and despair.

This book is hitting a little too close to home.

Oh, sure. Why the hell not? Please keep in mind: I haven't read a Stephen King novel since I was in high school.

Don't let that title fool you, folks. This is not as exciting as you may think.

Yes, I've read this before... but I might have to teach it soon, so I might as well revisit it now.

I nearly died laughing when Binx started "weeping in gratitude" after catching a glimpse of his secretary's beautiful ass. Otherwise, I'm weirdly ambivalent about this book so far.

I nearly died laughing when Binx started "weeping in gratitude" when he caught a glimpse of his secretary's beautiful ass. Otherwise, I'm weirdly ambivalent about this book so far.

I nearly died laughing when Binx started "weeping in gratitude" when he caught a glimpse of his secretary's beautiful ass. Otherwise, I'm weirdly ambivalent about this book so far.

Jesus Christ. I'm so bored with this book. Can't wait to be done with it... and, hell, this is coming from someone who will no doubt have to write about this book in his dissertation.

Jesus Christ, GEEK LOVE! Do you MIND? I am TRYING to eat LUNCH here?

So close!

Oh my god! I'm almost finished with this beast! Hurray for me!

Messy, meandering, wildly ambitious. And brilliant. I'm having a hard time finishing it. Keep finding other things to do. But, whoa, is it hella impressive.

"When she spoke of hell and the devil, it was from firsthand knowledge." I'm never going to finish this novel.

Pretty effing funny.

Holy shit, I hate this book. HATE HATE HATE it. If I weren't almost finished, I'd totally give up on it.

Can I admit something to you? I'm having a really hard time finishing this book... and I'm not sure why. I mean, I'll admit, it's pretty great and Atwood's prose is at its most sumptuous, evocative, and engaging... but I find myself continually groping for reasons to stop reading and do something else. I definitely have an "it's not you, it's me" relationship with this book.