Marie's review

Marie's review

Robot Dreams Robot Dreams
by Sara Varon

128745 Marie's review
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bookshelves: graphic-novels

If you read this book, you might start to think it's about relationships or the inevitability of loss and how people deal with it. you might begin to empathize with a robot or a dog. you might gasp out loud and you might feel like crying at some points. you might recognize that people change people unintentionally and that few interactions go by that don't form some new reality. you might feel equally hopeful and sad when you close the last page. and then you might over use the word might because you don't want to claim full ownership for being that impacted by a bunch of cartoon drawings! geesh! and then you'll try and redeem your pansified self by giving it only 4 stars and not the 5 that your gut is telling you to give.

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message 1: by Montambo
04/10/2008 07:26AM

26511 Go for 5 stars, Marie--do it for the robot! I should've given it 5 stars just for the radio belly part.

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message 2: by Judy
04/10/2008 08:10AM

885204 Is that robot related to bender?

http://z.about.com/d/animatedt...

Shit, I almost cried when I read your review, and I thought I had a cold robotic heart.

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message 3: by Carolanne
04/10/2008 08:27AM

25483 I love Bender, that drunk asshole.

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message 4: by Marie
04/10/2008 12:16PM

128745 sarah 5 stars are for sissies and, apparently, for Are you there God it's me Margaret and the Joy of Sex and a bunch of other nonsense I saw on my 5 star list.
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the radio belly part is the part that goes over the top for me. the radio belly part might indicate that one person, in the end, can rebuild another person completely and "fix" everything which brings us to the "Super Friend" dilema. A Super Friend can make it better but come on, a Super Friend can not make it "right".

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message 5: by Montambo (last edited 04/10/2008 12:37PM)
04/10/2008 12:18PM

26511 You also gave 5 stars to "Flowers in the Attic."

And...If you don't want to be home alone, and your superfriend comes over, then he/she is making things right!

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message 6: by Carolanne
04/10/2008 02:21PM

25483 Jeez Marie! Even I didn't give Flowers in the Attic five stars! Have some class!

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message 7: by Marie
04/10/2008 03:15PM

128745 I stand by my review of Flowers in the Attic. as far as class goes, carolanne, you might also be disappointed to hear that I LOVE canned peaches and prefer fake maple syrup to the real thing. I'm keepin it real bitch (except, you're not a bitch. you're a very sweet girl).
sarah - sticking with "better", open to being proven wrong, fair enough?

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message 8: by Montambo
04/10/2008 06:25PM

26511 OK, but what if you belong to one of those religions where there can't be an equal number of boys and girls hanging out together socially and your superfriend comes over, turning it into an odd number, therefore making the whole thing 'right!'

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message 9: by Marie
04/11/2008 07:47AM

128745 OK - you are out of control because even he doesn't say "the whole thing" right. only right. Admit it! you're just thinking with your willy.
besides since when are you the argumentative one? this is confusing me. what next, are you going to start thinking in words? are you going to sort your laundry and become a bad speller too? this could get confusing.

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message 10: by Montambo
04/11/2008 08:14AM

26511 "therefore making things right!"

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message 11: by Montambo
04/11/2008 09:04AM

26511 And I guess you just bring out my argumentative side when you're trying to diss Rivers Cuomo.

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message 12: by Marie (last edited 09/23/2008 09:43PM)
09/23/2008 02:03PM

128745 Also and p.s. another super important thing to note about this book is that when I hear "Jed the Humanoid" by Granddaddy, I think about it. okay, now I think I've said it all.

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