nicknicknicknick reviewed Machine Man by Max Barry
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3 stars
1) ''Finally he put the car in gear and drove off. I watched him slingshot around the next corner, alread up to forty or fifty miles per hour. I walked on. I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened; that we had started making better machines than people.''
2) ''By the end of each six-hour session, I felt dazed and unsure where I was. I wheeled along the corridor and saw the whole world as lines and vertices. I dreamed I was a wireframe, made of green light.''
3) ''That was why I thought I was unloved: I didn't score highly enough. I had made some attempts to improve my score and also told myslef I didn't care because …
1) ''Finally he put the car in gear and drove off. I watched him slingshot around the next corner, alread up to forty or fifty miles per hour. I walked on. I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened; that we had started making better machines than people.''
2) ''By the end of each six-hour session, I felt dazed and unsure where I was. I wheeled along the corridor and saw the whole world as lines and vertices. I dreamed I was a wireframe, made of green light.''
3) ''That was why I thought I was unloved: I didn't score highly enough. I had made some attempts to improve my score and also told myslef I didn't care because if that was what women wanted, something fake and temporary, I would rather be alone. And sometimes I was just lazy and would rather code things. But here I was soaking in a bath of my own filth with Lola scrubbing my shoulders, and what algorithm could explain that? That problem was nonhalting.''
