Review machines like me5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Charlie has washed out of all the professions and interests and hobbies he once pursued - tech, anthropology, real estate - and now he spends his time buying and selling stocks on his computer, barely scraping by. And in part, his plans are more exalted: He wants Adam to give him a purpose in life. ![]() ![]() It will be “erotic,” he reasons, because they will be creating a new form of life together. Charlie isn’t wealthy, but he decides to sink his inheritance into the purchase of an Adam just the same.Ĭharlie’s plan in part is to use Adam to woo Miranda, who is his distant upstairs neighbor as the novel begins and with whom Charlie hopes to share the responsibility of caring for Adam. The streets are filled with self-driving cars Charlie fritters away his days on the internet using an old 1960s computer and human-looking robots called Adams and Eves have just hit the market. Our trio is living in an alternate version of the 1980s, one where Alan Turing didn’t die, and as a result, their technology has far outstripped our own. That the robot is by far the most interesting of the three is the point. ![]() At the center of Ian McEwan’s at times disappointing new novel Machines Like Me is a triad: Charlie Friend, our narrator Miranda, his girlfriend and Adam, their personal robot. ![]()
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