Yeah, it's not for everyone. The literate, yes, but not everyone.
Hardy har har har.
Seriously, I have an exact opposite take on it. It was corny as all get out and so kitschy.
Cute and trendy is not "literate".
If one wants to talk about books of a similar genre, called cyberbunk, I mean, cyberpunk, Rudy Rucker wrote much cleverer and more entertaining books.
But as far as literate or literary, Philip K. Dick wrote them much better and much longer prior to the Gibson pulp.
Your comment to me points out the major problem. It was pulp that took itself seriously.
It becomes nothing.