
Machines Like Me
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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By:
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Ian McEwan
New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winner and international best-selling author of Atonement and The Children Act
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma.
Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.
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McEwan does a great job of incidentally commenting on a lot of interesting questions our society faces. I loved the ability of the robot being able to make more money by day trading than the human.
I felt he might have explored a bit more the question of the robots learning the huge amount of data on the internet, and what that might mean for us poor mortals.
Another winner by McEwan, and the narrator is good
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Engrossing story
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Really? I thought Lon Chaney was dead!
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AI Thought Problem
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Great writing, average listen.
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While his writing was as good as expected, I felt the book rambled at great length between relationships, robots, British politics et al with no real purpose but to fill pages. Sorry, but not an enjoyable experience.
Very disappointed.
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Great book! Makes you think about life and meaning
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Amazing novel by my favorite author
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An AI love triangle
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Not bad, but not McEwans best
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