'Count Zero' = Antithesis, so I guess I have to wait to see if 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' = Synthesis. I haven't read Sprawl # 3 (Mona Lisa Overdrive), but after reading Neuromancer and now 'Count Zero', I think I will start referring to the Sprawl trilogy as the Sprawl Dialectic. So if you decide that Count Zero is the biggest let down you have ever received from Audible as I did, then stick with it and maybe 're-read' it. It was hard to believe that this was the same book and I was shocked at the amount of detail that I had initially missed. I went from only persevering with it because I had paid for it to being reluctant to put it down. It held my interest right to the end and was so good that I felt compelled to listen to it again from the beginning and WOW! what a difference. It wasn't until two hours from the end that I really got into the story and discovered that it was really rather exciting. This however proved to be anything but an advantage, as it was so easy to become distracted from the detail of the story and I often found myself zoning in and out of the narrative and wondering who these characters were. I tried listening to it whilst on the go, which after all should be a major advantage of this format. I initially found this book to be the embodiment of tedium.
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