I FINALLY finished this. It took forever because I kept putting it down and then trying to pick up back up again. Halfway through I was thoroughly confused. I finally figured out why I was so confused. The ebook version I was reading (admittedly from a questionable source) skipped the whole middle part of the novel. The whole guts of it. It went from soon after Molly hooks up with Case in Chiba City to the two of them landing in Freeside. I finally figured out what was wrong and went back and started it almost completely over and then read the middle part...so it went like this: read the beginning, then the first half of the last third of the book, then the middle and then second half of the last third of the book. This is not a sequence conducive to good reading unfortunately. Besides that though, I had a hard time connecting or feeling any compassion for the main character Case, a skinny, young, addicted, down on his luck hacker. The character of Molly Millions, the streetwise, razors under the fingernails, kick ass gun for hire, was another matter though and she made the story for me. And the other characters, Armitage/Corto, Maelcum, Dixie, the Finn, 3LadyJane, Riviera and even Wintermute were well fleshed out and human with their strengths and flaws. Even though I messed up the reading of it royally, I still enjoyed the whole experience. When I think about the book in its entirety and move the pieces around in my brain, I realize how brilliant Gibson's book is and I see why this has become the seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. One day, after it has been completely digested, I will have to read this book over again...correctly. I better be prepared though to have myself completely blown away.