"Such is his command of the plumbing and architecture of fiction, you forgive the occasional bloodlessness.All the various themes are duly brought together in a way that is perhaps too neat but which is also satisfying." - Nick Curtis, Evening Standard (.) (A) clever, densely worked but sporadically irritating read, throughout which you hear McEwan whispering in your ear. (.) The science on AI in the book feels plausible, and McEwan seems to have done extensive research into the philosophical side too (.) All this would be fine if the rest of it felt more credible. Even for someone of McEwan’s fluency, that’s a lot to pack in. And a soupçon of juvenile gender-fluidity too. "To underline that this is also a thoughtful, moral tale, there are subplots involving the nature of violation and revenge, and what it means to be a parent.The reader is left baffled and beguiled." - The Economist (.) Machines Like Me is ultimately about the age-old question of what makes people human. "As subplots multiply in Machines Like Me, the fun occasionally loses its purpose.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī : quick, (over-)packed, and quite entertaining read Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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