Brooke's Reviews > The Difference Engine

When I read Neuromancer, I started out not understanding a thing that was going on, but finally made sense of everything by the end. When reading The Difference Engine, I had the opposite experience. The first segment was fully comprehensible, but afterward the book just turned to mush. What in the world happened? Who were all these characters? What was the conflict and what was at stake? Don't ask me, because I haven't a clue. I got more and more irritated as I got closer to the end and had to suffer through an increasing number of pompous blowhards' points of view. William Gibson is always a more difficult read for me, but this is the first time I felt let down.