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I'm desperately trying to finish Neuromancer by William Gibson so I can move on to spooky season books. It's not bad at all, I'm just not really clicking with it, so it's been slow going.
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Finished Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles, a two-timeline mystery focusing on the unsolved murder of a member of a group of friends at Oxford. The author normally writes steamy romances, but this tastefully cut to black before anything got explicit. Something about the writing or story made it a very enjoyable, fast read; I haven't devoured anything so quickly in ages.
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I loved the first third of Neuromancer. The rest largely felt like it failed to deliver, and a bit like it went off the rails. Count Zero was a bit better in execution.
I liked the premise/vibe of Neuromancer a lot more than the actual narrative. Some of the dialogue was just painful.