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An interesting read. Not at all what I thought it was going to be, though I was basing my judgement off the Will Smith movie. Although you can see where the writers of that got their ideas, the book is still a very different set-up from the movie...
That said, I did rather enjoy the book. The writing is dry and scientific, as seems to be Asimoc's style, but the stories were still interesting enough. The human characters were quite dull, but his skill seems to be in bringing the robots to life, wh ...more
That said, I did rather enjoy the book. The writing is dry and scientific, as seems to be Asimoc's style, but the stories were still interesting enough. The human characters were quite dull, but his skill seems to be in bringing the robots to life, wh ...more
Overall, I liked this book. I didn't anticipate it being multiple short stories (which I have a history of struggling to read), so I may not have read it knowing that. After having read it though, I'm glad I did. I like the way it was set up with an overarching story keeping the stories connected while each story was it's own. It brought up a lot of big questions in relation to robots in our world and had little mysteries to solve in each one. If you like thinking things through or science ficti
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I liked it. I think it was very thought provoking without being preachy. They were good stories.
This is more of a collection of short stories rather than a straight narrative. The stories were good but there were only a few that I truly enjoyed. I still haven't decided whether I'll read the rest of the series.
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Mar 20, 2013
Amanda
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