Litsy

Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky

bailed

The idea is great, and the beginning is very intriguing. However, after a few chapters, I could not take more of Uncharles. I don't like the writing style, and the narrator's voice is plodding and grating, so I bailed.

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lisakoby

Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky

pick

Slow start but worth it. What is justice? What is purpose? What is love and connection? Excellent end. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Lizpixie

Aurora Rising | Alastair Reynolds

#12Booksof2024 I‘m a few days late starting this challenge, but here‘s my picks for the first months of this year. January - Revenge by Tom Bower( Meghan is awful)plus it was the only book I read in January!
February - House of Flame & Shadow by Sarah.J.Maas March - Aurora Rising by Alistair Reynolds, one of the best scifi series I‘ve read.

Andrew65

Andrew65 Good choices, I‘m interested in the Science Fiction especially. 2mo

Lizpixie @Andrew65 I HIGHLY recommend it, it‘s a side on series to his Revelation Space novels. It‘s a crime novel set in space, it‘s absolutely fantastic. His world building is just🤌♥️ 2mo

Andrew65 Will definitely be searching out the work by this author - thanks for the information. 2mo

Lizpixie @andrew65 it‘s about AI, very fitting in this day and age I think. Gave me chills. 2mo

Andrew65 @Lizpixie Very and a worrying context. 2mo

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squirrelbrain

Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky

bailed

#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! 3mo

BarbaraBB What @Bookwormjillk says 😀. I‘ll take a pass unless it makes the shortlist of course! 3mo

sarahbarnes Good to know! 3mo

Hooked_on_books This one didn‘t really work for me, so you‘re not missing much. 3mo

Megabooks Good to know! 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky

so-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. 7mo

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, 7mo

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.
7mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky

😑

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Robotswithpersonality

Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky

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

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HeyT

Blindsight | Peter Watts

pick

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?!

18 likes

Robotswithpersonality

Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky