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Click Here For Murder (Turing Hopper #2)
by
Donna Andrews (Goodreads Author)
Artificial intelligence meets Miss Marple in the Agatha Award-winning series.
From the award-winning author of You've Got Murder--an all-new mystery featuring Turing Hopper, an almost-sentient mainframe computer with a mind like Miss Marple and hardware that hides a suspiciously human heart.
From the award-winning author of You've Got Murder--an all-new mystery featuring Turing Hopper, an almost-sentient mainframe computer with a mind like Miss Marple and hardware that hides a suspiciously human heart.
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
April 6th 2004
by Berkley
(first published 2003)
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I have not read the first book in the series, but it was easy to pick up this book and understand what was going on. I really liked reading the parts about Maude and Tim. Reading the parts about Turing were not quite enjoyable for me. She was constantly thinking about that it meant to be human vs computer, and I got a little tired of that line of thought. The characters are pretty paranoid throughout the book, but since Turing is an artificial computer personality that has achieved sentience, I...more
The central character is an AIP--Artificial Intelligence Person. I could really love the series, but, alas, I won't be reading another installment. The problem? The novel is told from more than one point of view. The writing is good, the story is intriguing, but the book design is off putting. When the narration shifts to Turing's POV, the regular body type shifts to italic. In my view, a little italic goes a long way. Pages and pages of it are out of my comfort zone. Every time I saw the beginn...more
I was bemusedly amused by this book, which was published in 2003 and is therefore woefully out of date as far as computer technology is concerned. It is, to my surprise, a science fiction novel written for mystery readers - one of the main characters is a sentient computer program named Turing Hopper. As a result, it doesn't "sound" like an SF novel to an SF reader.
The plot is somewhat convoluted and relies partly on events that happened in the previous volume of the series. Basically, a charac...more
The plot is somewhat convoluted and relies partly on events that happened in the previous volume of the series. Basically, a charac...more
I put off reading this one for quite some time, because the main character is an AIP and I am not by an stretch of the imagination a computer whiz. I was worried I wouldn't be able to follow the story. I was wrong.
The mystery story was quite compelling, with the interweaving of assumed identities, murder, and pieces that don't make sense. I found myself very fond of Turing, despite the fact that she is a sentient computer program; I liked the other main characters as well. The involvement of an...more
The mystery story was quite compelling, with the interweaving of assumed identities, murder, and pieces that don't make sense. I found myself very fond of Turing, despite the fact that she is a sentient computer program; I liked the other main characters as well. The involvement of an...more
"It's hard to do legwork with no legs. So when her coworker Ray Santiago is found murdered in an alley, AIP Turing needs her human friends' help to find his killer. But just as they start to put together the puzzle of Ray's fabricated life, outside dangers creep into the lab—and, perhaps, within the very computer in which Turing lives..."
Don't let the cutesy cover of this book dissuade you from picking it up and reading it. Artificial Intelligence Personality Turing Hopper is a new type of priva...more
Don't let the cutesy cover of this book dissuade you from picking it up and reading it. Artificial Intelligence Personality Turing Hopper is a new type of priva...more
#2 in the Turing Hopper series. There are a few series narrated by a non-human (Spencer Quinn's canine narrated Chet and Bernie series comes to mind) but Donna Andrews has come up with an inanimate protagonist. This contemporary feeling series has a computer designed for human interface in a customer service sort of setting, as the programming added features to make the computer more human acting, it became sentient. Robert A. Heinlein did this with Mike the computer in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistr...more
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I don't like this series anywhere near as much as I should. I like a good cozy mystery, I love stories about computers, robots, A.I and science fiction and this second novel in the series continues to disappoint me. The A.I. acts more like a little old lady, then the actual mature woman "Maud" who efficiently runs two offices, is a crack shot and the smartest of all the characters. Tim the dim witted P.I. is ok for laughs but worked better as the smitten copy boy in the first novel. I don't thin...more
I enjoyed the first book I read by this author, so I thought it would be fun to try out her other mystery series. This book was okay, but nowhere near as good as "Murder with Peacocks." I guess if I were more interested in techno-stuff, I'd have liked it more. The human characters were very one-dimensional, almost cardboard, while the computer characters seemed more alive. I won't be reading any more in this series, but I will go back to her others to see if they're any better.
I really liked this 2nd book in the Turing Hopper series. I finally had a grip as to who and what Turing was. In the first book I was confused. This book I read in a day and really enjoyed it. There were a couple of twists and turns and even if you figure out what is going on, it doesn't matter. I am looking forward to finding the next book in the series and to continue with the story.
I found the whole concept of the AI as a friend and mystery solver to be a little strange. I did like her two friends/co-workers who did all her legwork for her, but I couldn't get over the feeling of dealing with "HAL".
I'll try reading the other one I have in the series, but having an online AI solve the mysteries is still a bit weird for me.
I'll try reading the other one I have in the series, but having an online AI solve the mysteries is still a bit weird for me.
Interesting book about an AIP (artificial Intellingence Program) which is sentient and runs her own company. One of her employees is murdered and his laptop is missing. She and her human employees must solve the murder before the murderer can harm the company. The second in a series. I need to read the first one now.
I really like the characters, the mystery is pretty basic but the nice change of pace is of course in Turing the computer. I enjoy how she works through the attempt to become more human. And frankly I am learning alot, this book certainly gives you food for thought if you wonder about computers evolving.
Had a difficult time getting started, most likely because this is book 2 and I haven't read book 1 yet. The LARP is an interesting setting and the main mystery intriguing.
I enjoyed meeting Donna earlier this year, and now I'm enjoying this series. Turing is a most interesting individual.
Fun, quick read. Interesting twist using an AIP as one of the main characters. I think I need to read the first book, now.
Really enjoying this series about a sentient computer Turing who helps solve mysteries and her human friends.
The second Turing Hopper mystery, this book develops a broader, underlying plot that will be ongoing for multiple books, rather than the simpler episodic mystery I expected. In that sense, the mystery in this book was mildly disappointing. The character development is a bit uneven; I like how Turing, KingFisher and Maude are developing, but Tim just doesn't fit well.
I liked the first one in this series a lot more, but after the first 50 pages I got into it
Feb 27, 2009
Mollie
marked it as wishlist
Click Here for Murder (A Turing Hopper Mystery) by Donna Andrews (2004)
I am really warming up to the characters...new and old are interesting and the computer speak is not as overwhelming as in the first book. I liked it!
Poor Turing 2, a heck of a loose end
Mystery
4
Fun and enjoyable.
A Turing Hopper mystery
I didn't like this book as much as the first. I'll still read the third in hopes it gets better. It seemed weak.
Aug 20, 2008
Callee
is currently reading it
I have joined an odd book group that requires me to do a handi-craft and discuss an author simultaneously so I am crochetin now for the first time in years and I am reading a mystery which is not my genre all for the sake of having a book group to meet with...SAD, SAD, SAD
This book is not my style-UNFINISHED
This book is not my style-UNFINISHED
I've had the book from the library for 2 months. I loved the 1st book and looked forward to reading this one but could only get to about page 20. It was a great start but this reading futz I'm in is still strong. I'll see if I can come back to it someday.
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Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia, the setting of Murder with Peacocks and Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, and now lives and works in Reston, Virginia. When not writing fiction, Andrews is a self-confessed nerd, rarely found away from her computer, unless she's messing in the garden
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