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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

Isaac Asimov

Start date: February 22, 2016

Finish date: February 29, 2016

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Mar 29, 2014 Nancy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, still-owned

Despite its age, this book still definitely holds its own because rather than a book about technology and the future of technology, it is actually a sociological study in what it means to be human. The book takes the form of a series of stories relating incidents with robots as they become progressively more advanced. Robots had been started to be used commonly in the 1990s, and by the end of the book robots were being relied on for the maintenance of human happiness and success. But, where robo ...more

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Nov 21, 2010 Trisha rated it liked it · review of another edition

I thought this was a very well written book with an interesting style ~ the form of memories told by a woman that a journalist writes down. You tend to forget you are not a party to the stories you are writing, but only an observer after the fact.

Nothing like the movie, I really enjoyed it.

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Jan 05, 2014 Rebekah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-science-fiction, genre-fiction, genre-novels, e-book, genre-classics, genre-fantasy, genre-science-fiction-dystopia, genre-science-fiction-fantasy, genre-short-stories, 1001-import

This book was okay. I can see how it was important from a historical, birth-of-science-fiction sort of way. However, it still felt pretty dated to me, and it was obvious the author was writing from the 1950's. It was hard for me to get really into the story and I thought at times it was a bit preachy, trying too hard to be philosophical. ...more

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Apr 13, 2009 Brenda rated it did not like it

Shelves: did-not-finish

I wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't bring myself to care about any characters. That is one of my problems with short stories, though. I gave up about 100 pages in. I guess I just wasn't all that interested in the robots. ...more

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Feb 04, 2011 Rachel N. rated it really liked it

A series of short stories all involving robots and the U.S. Robots Corporation. Robot development is tracked from non-talking caretaker robots to robots governing the human race. I found the stories very interesting.

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