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The Full Life of a Robot
Powerful beings are made every day. What if you didn't realise your power, but the rest of the world did? This diary was found in a heap and submitted for publishing, to spread the true story of a robot.
107 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 27, 2019
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September 26, 2019
Interesting story that deals with many modern issues, including change, loss and gender. When it's removed from the human to android, one is offered a more critical insight into their own society.
Funny parts, sections that will make you question, but the ending...
Funny parts, sections that will make you question, but the ending...
February 9, 2024
This book started out interesting, and I did find it intriguing how the robot tried to understand the people around it, but all-in-all, the story really wasn’t for me. There was a lot of explaining happening and not enough showing. I couldn’t allow myself to be pulled into this world. I didn’t understand why the neighbor had died and then it was never mentioned again. Maybe I missed the cause of death, or something. The character’s departure didn’t leave much of an impact.
A little more world-building would’ve been nice. There was a lot of talking and explaining in certain areas, but not enough in others. How was it that this robot could physically feel and experience emotions? Was it programed that way? Even if the character didn’t realize this because it had no idea who built it, maybe a human could’ve brought up this question and gave the robot pause, or something. Everything is just accepted as is.
The robot wants to locate its family unit that mysteriously vanished one day, which was the plot, I guess. I got derailed at the West World cringe moment when a woman named Malinda wanted to get down and dirty with our mechanical protagonist shortly after meeting it. She is barren, which is repeated a lot, instead of using other words like infertile or unfruitful here and there just to spice up the vocabulary some. Anyway, the two bang and after a series of sex secessions, she gets all pissy about the robot wanting to change its gender because its friend, W-ix, said it’ll help it find its family unit for some reason, and it was pages of Malinda ranting about it.
The writing was decent, the pacing was good, the cover art is beautifully done, and there were excellent lines sprinkled about, but I just couldn’t get into this story. Maybe if it was more fleshed out, had better word choices, and skipped out on the horny human woman hungry for some robot action, I could have enjoyed it more.
A little more world-building would’ve been nice. There was a lot of talking and explaining in certain areas, but not enough in others. How was it that this robot could physically feel and experience emotions? Was it programed that way? Even if the character didn’t realize this because it had no idea who built it, maybe a human could’ve brought up this question and gave the robot pause, or something. Everything is just accepted as is.
The robot wants to locate its family unit that mysteriously vanished one day, which was the plot, I guess. I got derailed at the West World cringe moment when a woman named Malinda wanted to get down and dirty with our mechanical protagonist shortly after meeting it. She is barren, which is repeated a lot, instead of using other words like infertile or unfruitful here and there just to spice up the vocabulary some. Anyway, the two bang and after a series of sex secessions, she gets all pissy about the robot wanting to change its gender because its friend, W-ix, said it’ll help it find its family unit for some reason, and it was pages of Malinda ranting about it.
The writing was decent, the pacing was good, the cover art is beautifully done, and there were excellent lines sprinkled about, but I just couldn’t get into this story. Maybe if it was more fleshed out, had better word choices, and skipped out on the horny human woman hungry for some robot action, I could have enjoyed it more.
July 19, 2022
This book is honestly one of those little masterpieces just out there waiting to be found. With any indie author there’s a possibility that something will be great or outright awful. The full life of a robot was the former, and I realised this by about chapter 4.
The interactions the robot has with the human character ‘Melinda’ are some of the best parts. Robot is so literal-minded that it results is some laugh out loud moments during their exchanges.
Another great character is the robot Wix. There is one scene where they go to the cinema, and afterwards wix decides to take a chair with him as a momento—so stupid, but I love it.
The story has all the existential musings of a Dostoevsky work, combined with a dry, satirical wit found in Tom Sharpe’s books.
Highly recommend.
The interactions the robot has with the human character ‘Melinda’ are some of the best parts. Robot is so literal-minded that it results is some laugh out loud moments during their exchanges.
Another great character is the robot Wix. There is one scene where they go to the cinema, and afterwards wix decides to take a chair with him as a momento—so stupid, but I love it.
The story has all the existential musings of a Dostoevsky work, combined with a dry, satirical wit found in Tom Sharpe’s books.
Highly recommend.
August 27, 2021
When I read this diary, I felt like a robot wrote it. Just when I thought the robot had experienced everything, there was more. An interesting read with laughs as well as things to make you think, there was never a dull word. I'm happy I bought this publication (in paperback.)
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