Yep, there's a great book on it called Bone Music.

I must say I get lost with plots quite easily, mainly because I find it hard to keep track of who's who, or I'll accidentally skip over a crucial bit of information like a fool.

With Neuromancer, like a lot of books, I kept checking the synopsis on Wikipedia as I went - being careful not to read ahead - to make sure I'd actually registered everything.

It's wonderful isn't it? Nobody does social anxiety and urban paranoia like Shirley Jackson.

I came here to make a similar comment, but you did it iso much better. 👏👏👏

Jesus fucking christ on a bike.

Or a mobility scooter. Fuck this.

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Ha!! Oh god, my wife would divorce me immediately.

No thank you. 😆

Bit of a clickbait title - the Judge actually says (paraphrasing) "You're young, it's not too late to turn your life around, eventually settle down with a wife and a family." He wasn't suggesting he get married to cure his horrendous behaviour.

But what really galls me, is that after all of this - and 67 previous offences - he's been essentially let off partly because the prison chaplain said "Ah, he's a good lad really." Priests pissed on their own morality chips a long time ago, IMO, and we need to stop looking to those fuckers for moral guidance.