Dropping this. Too pulpy, descriptions read like technical writing rather than prose. A slog.

@mouse I want to like it — but taking 100+ words to describe quick drawing a scabbard end to deliver a gutblow is bad kinetic storytelling.

@mouse @gengengar i agree

@wayward @mouse @gengengar hahaha yea i bounced so hard and i was like "tf are people talking about w/ this book?!"

@wayward @mouse @gengengar (and i really like my pulpy stuff!! neuromancer is an all-time fav; different pulp & flow of words, perhaps)

@wayward @mouse @cblgh Neuromancer has the decency to have a handy glossary in the back, and get to the point rather than dilate into multi-paragraph bullet time. Neuromancer fucks, to use the common parlance.

@wayward @gengengar @cblgh interesting! I tried and gave up on Neuromancer a couple times -- we have the makings of a unified theory here