I'm by no means a quick reader and I devoured Neuromancer. I really had zero problem parsing the introduced words. Easier even than A Clockwork Orange.

My experience reading A Scanner Darkly was super painful. Switched to audiobook and quit quickly even then.

> I want a good story, not spectacle. Neuromancer was a spanking good story.

Agreed, but the prose are also so beautiful. This is not some garden variety pulp (not that there is anything wrong with pulp)