William Gibson: Neuromancer review

I have a thing on cyberpunk so of course the book to read is William Gibson's classic, Neuromancer, several awards winning novel and a key piece on the cyberpunk genre.
It tells a story of once a great computer hacker named Case, who does too much drugs and makes his living on small jobs. But then he's faced with a big job and a chance to fix his neural system and be that hacker once more.
But who is this person who's hired him and what is actually required of him?

Gibson's novel had a huge effect on science fiction and he has created the term "cyberspace". I had big hopes for this book as I have read one book previously by Gibson and enjoyed it very much.
But I was a bit disappointed.
I found the minor characters getting mixed up all the time and all this technological linguistics was way too confusing half of the time that I couldn't just enjoy the story.

I think the problem was that I read the book in Finnish. And as it has been written in 1984 and translated around the same year, the modern technological Finnish grammar hadn't yet been developed to meet the language we're speaking today - hence the complexity.
I should read the book again in English one day, but not any time soon.
Still need to get over of the disappointment.
/ [Caterin S.]

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