I was the same way. My struggle with the book was the way that Gibson presents new lore. He doesn't say "this is an ono-sendai deck; it allows the user to enter cyberspace. it connects to your head here, here, and here". That's how Neal Stephenson writes. Gibson just presents you with an in-universe object or character or company, and talks about it as if you already know what he's talking about, and it's up to you, the reader, to figure it out.

He even does this with narrative. Two male characters will be having a conversation, and all of a sudden the next line will say something like

> "[dialog]", she said

Without introducing who SHE is. You have to wait for the next page to figure out, based on her description.

It drove me insane for years, but now I like it and I've gotten used to it. I like count zero and its characters more than neuromancer. I'm reading virtual light right now but am taking a break to read John Romero's Doom Guy. I'll get to Mona Lisa Overdrive eventually