![]() Also, Charlie and Miranda want to adopt a child that Charlie accidentally meets at a park. Years earlier, Miranda had falsely accused a man of raping her and now he is getting out of prison, apparently with thoughts of revenge. Then there are a pair of contrived subplots. Kennedy was only wounded in Dallas, Reagan never became president, Britain loses the Falklands War, and our tech is about 50 years ahead of schedule, in part because Alan Turing is still alive (and a sort of presiding genius in the story). ![]() Though introspective, Charlie is not very bright, and he seems not to know that three is a crowd.īecause the book is set in the early 1980s, it’s also a work of alternative history. Charlie is also the owner of Adam, one of a limited edition of artificial intelligence robots so advanced they can pass for human. In the first place, it’s the story of Charlie Friend, a shabby-genteel day trader, who falls in love with a tenant of his named Miranda. While not an overly complex novel, it covers a lot of ground and has a tendency to ramble. Machines Like Me feels like such a novel: an assemblage of fascinating ideas and themes that don’t all fit together. In his longer works, he often wanders and loses the thread. His best novels have always been his quickest, and he has said that he enjoys the idea of writing books that can be consumed in a single sitting. ![]() ![]() As successful as he’s been as a novelist, Ian McEwan may have missed his calling as a short-story writer. ![]()
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