![]() ![]() The black characters sound like a parody of Beatniks from a Looney Tunes cartoon.I'd love to hear this book re-performed by someone like Jonathan Davis, the narrator of Snow Crash, who gave his characters authentic and unique voices. An Armenian character gets a VERY poor Russian accent. ![]() ![]() Good news - all the rest of the female characters sound like that, too.Asian characters get an unironic "chingchong"-style Chinese accent. That's right - the narrator thought that a half-cyborg killer should sound like a teenage boy impersonating his little sister. That said, narrator Robertson Dean was utterly wrong for "Neuromancer." His voice is flat and without joy, he clearly does not understand quite a bit of the "lingo" he is reading (and thus puts emphasis on the wrong words, which makes following the dialog a trial), and - most tiresomely - this is yet another clueless dude who just CANNOT deliver dialog for female or non-white characters.Molly Millions, one of the most stone-cold women ever put to print, gets a generic, high-pitched whispery voice with just a hint of a nagging whine. "Neuromancer" is nothing less than a classic, and a story I've enjoyed re-visiting every five years - it's always a new experience. ![]()
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