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squirrelbrain
squirrelbrain
Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Bailedbailed

#ToBlonglist

Not for me. Charles, a robot, inexplicably murders his owner and sets off to find out why. I thought it might be an interesting comparison with Annie Bot but, after 3 hours of the 12.5 hour audiobook absolutely nothing has happened. It‘s very repetitive too, feeling like a child‘s story.

I get the idea that most humans have disappeared so maybe there are some interesting insights later but I‘m not hanging around to find out.

Bookwormjillk The list is long and time is short! 4w
BarbaraBB What @Bookwormjillk says 😀. I‘ll take a pass unless it makes the shortlist of course! 4w
sarahbarnes Good to know! 3w
Hooked_on_books This one didn‘t really work for me, so you‘re not missing much. 3w
Megabooks Good to know! 2w
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
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Mehso-so

Sea of Rust meets Wall-E meets A.I. (the film).
By which I mean the dystopian cynicism comes through more strongly than the charm of a hapless robot trying to find its purpose amidst the remains of humanity. Perhaps it's just the proliferation of discussion on this topic or my desire to always find a good robot book, either I'm getting pickier or it's getting harder to find stories on this subject that don't feel like not-too-wild-variances 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? on the same theme. To go further into detail would be spoilers but these plot beats, even the discussions had, don't feel like new ground. I can appreciate the somewhat upbeat ending. I understand why Tchaikovsky did what he did, but the pacing did start to drag toward the latter half/last third of the book. 5mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Further observations:
Something about Wonk's speech in the central library archive feels like the disillusionment of corruptible Communist Russia when the glorious revolution didn't make things better. There's just a lot of 'of course everything is terrible because: humans'. Which is a valid theme, especially in dystopian fiction, but one I don't tend to read because it doesn't really offer anything constructive or entertaining, 5mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 and gets very repetitive and predictable very fast.
Not sure I can forgive the author the perversion of the library/archive concept, though it was among the more powerful illustrations of how programming could go wrong.
I'm fairly certain Tchaikovsky was doing something clever with author names and the number/letter coding titles of the parts of the book and the themes of the parts therein, but I'm not quite clever enough to be sure.
5mo
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
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😑

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
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Oh, HELL no!
Hoppity Jack: soon to be starring in my nightmares. 😶‍🌫️

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HeyT
HeyT
Blindsight | Peter Watts
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Pickpick

I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this. This was a discussion of cognitive theory and sentience as it relates to the human condition disguised as a first contact novel with vampires?!

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
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Robot Knight Librarians! I cannot express how much I love this.

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
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Monday vibes.

willaful Truly! 5mo
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Twainy
Twainy
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Pickpick

1st scene reminded me of the Red Dwarf episode when we meet Kryton. Charles is a rich man‘s robot valet.

Best library & robot librarians.

Charles is on a mission to find a new job. We walk with him & his sidekick through a world in crumbles. Humanity is dwindling.

There‘s pop culture & literary Easter eggs. LOVE a fun nerdy robot story with a moral & this didn‘t disappoint! The narration was great! (little too much religion for me)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
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Dedication. 🤖♥️🙋🏼‍♂️☺️

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wanderinglynn
wanderinglynn
Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky
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#weekendreads

I only brought 1 book with me (I know! 🤦🏼‍♀️ but there were reasons). So I stopped at a local bookstore Friday night to browse. The inside cover said it was Murderbot meets Redshirts. That was good enough for me! 🤖♦️

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Ruthiella I hope it is good! 🤞 Murderbot + Redshirts would entice me as well! 5mo
TheSpineView Sounds good! Looking forward to your review. 5mo
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