Mona Lisa Overdrive is last entry in Sprawl trilogy. Not sure if I am starting to get used to William Gibson’s style or he learned to write easier to follow books by the time he wrote this one but I didn’t have as hard time with this as I had with first two books. Several stories and with different characters going on same time but this time it didn’t take as much time to get which story and where. Same narrator as in Count Zero.
Even with this being bit easier to follow it wasn’t easy to follow. Jumping from story to story didn’t let me get into flow. If this was technique to keep you hooked it didn’t work. It wasn’t that I need to keep listening further to know what happened. It was disappointment when I was curious to know what happens and then had to jump into different story and forget why I was so into that previous story. Book has interesting points to make and hook you for a moment and then it needs to hook you again because it let you go when story changed.
I wonder if Neuromancer works better now after I have been exposed to Gibson’s work for three books. Neuromancer had most interesting story and it is most influential book of the trilogy. Most importantly it had only one story going on which makes it is easier than other two books. I wish there was audiobook in Finnish which could help me. These three books are the first ones I have hard time to follow. Having them on my native language or having visuals could help. I have understood others have hard time with them too. I guess it tells how good ideas books have when they are so popular even when readers have hard time with them.
Not sure if I continue with Burning Chrome or start something else next. Burning Chrome is collection of William Gibson’s short stories. Some of stories happen in Sprawl trilogy’s world. At least in that book I should have complete stories without jumping.