Mostly I'm more about characters than details. Like, in Snow Crash I wasn't a fan of Hiro and skipped ahead at points to the Y.T.'s sections as she was more interesting. In Gibson's works, Molly Millions was my favorite cyberpunk character (and still is), but I didn't much care about the others in the Sprawl trilogy. The others... It was working a late-night job and had time to read, so All Tomorrow's Parties and Pattern Recognition were more about killing time. :)
PR's look into "what makes something cool" was done better by Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance when he tried to pick apart the concept of "quality", in my opinion.
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