Machines Like Me
A Novel

Three days before, she had asked a mysterious question. We were mid-embrace, in the conventional position. She drew my face towards hers. Her look was serious. She whispered, "Tell me something. Are you real?" I didn’t reply. A few days ago, my sister introduced me to the bizarre world of soap cu......more

At points in my reading of Machines Like Me, I toyed with the idea that Ian McEwan was experimenting with a daring novelistic conceit. Could it be true that he was deliberately constructing a lame and lackluster plot involving two of the most unengaging characters I have encountered in fiction in or......more

Charlie Friend is a lazy day-trader in London who vacillates between bouts of grandiosity and worthlessness. The ultimate early adopter, Charlie uses a recent inheritance to buy “the first truly viable manufactured human with plausible intelligence and looks, believable motion and shifts of expressi......more

3,5 Incredibile come siano reali, presenti, i personaggi creati dalla penna di McEwan. Tanto che, nel ricordo, ti sembra di averli avuti accanto, di averci intrattenuto vere e proprie conversazioni, di averci condiviso momenti e sensazioni (aver amato, pianto, riso con loro). La sua passione per il mo......more

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan was much more than I expected. The story involves thirty-something Charlie using his inheritance to buy a Synthetic Human called Adam (yes Adam), these things are so advanced they are indistinguishable from real human beings. You buy one, plug it in and have some decis......more