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.
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. 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 of the power to invent things beyond our control.
Ian McEwan’s command of the English language and his skills for storytelling still shines through in this latest novel. However there are just a few too many issues and themes this story tries to cover (as the Guardian review also notes) - consciousness, t...
评分Ian McEwan’s command of the English language and his skills for storytelling still shines through in this latest novel. However there are just a few too many issues and themes this story tries to cover (as the Guardian review also notes) - consciousness, t...
评分Ian McEwan’s command of the English language and his skills for storytelling still shines through in this latest novel. However there are just a few too many issues and themes this story tries to cover (as the Guardian review also notes) - consciousness, t...
评分Ian McEwan’s command of the English language and his skills for storytelling still shines through in this latest novel. However there are just a few too many issues and themes this story tries to cover (as the Guardian review also notes) - consciousness, t...
评分Ian McEwan’s command of the English language and his skills for storytelling still shines through in this latest novel. However there are just a few too many issues and themes this story tries to cover (as the Guardian review also notes) - consciousness, t...
Nothing is more human than moral inconsistency.
评分平行八十年代读来莫名有趣 读到A-and-Es集体意识自毁时只能叹一口气 或许人类情感的复杂多变捉摸不定已经不能简化成纯粹的形式了 总是忍不住觉得每个人物都很可疑 不得不说文学的未来植根于俳句似乎无法反驳哈哈!
评分改改又是一部美剧了。
评分Adam最后一次外出,彻夜未归,回来后还怪怪的。Charlie一看新闻,发现首相被炸。。。看到此处,我还以为Adam去玩了票大的,哈哈哈
评分R4 read by Anton Lesser.
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