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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
I don’t really want to read about AI and the premise was interesting but fell flat
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Une histoire d'amour certes (même plusieurs) mais pas une romance (j'insiste)
Ce roman a multiples lectures est tout qimplement passionnant. Il peut se lire comme une sequelle de Frankeinstein de Mary Shelley et il est tout aussi voir meme plus passionnant.
Le fait de suivre en parallèle l'histoire de Mary Shelley et de son descendant, en la personne de Ry Shelley, chirurgien trans est tout simplement une idée de genie. Les deux histoires se mèlent et il est impossible de làcher ce roman. Le lecteur doute de qui est qui et c'est brilliant. Cet autrice est vraiment brilliante.
Les questionnements sur l'intelligence artificielle, la vie eternelle, l'amour, ce qu'est d'être humain, les modifications du corps humain, l'optimisation du corps par la robotique, la tolérance,....sont tous abordés dans ce roman foisonnant.
Il montre à quel point les questionnements posés par Mary Shelley sont toujours d'actualité.
Bref ce roman est épique et magistral. Je comprends qu'il ai été dans les finalistes du Booker Prize.
L'ecriture est sublime. Les personnages sont complexes et évolus tout au long du roman.
Quant à l'histoire d'amour, il y en a plusieurs Mary Shelley et son mari bien sur, mais egalement l'artiste et son oeuvre, le scientifique et ses theories, l'ame et le corps, l'etre humain et la foi, sont toutes des histoires d'amour abordées ici. Et c'est absolument magique.
Ce roman a multiples lectures est tout qimplement passionnant. Il peut se lire comme une sequelle de Frankeinstein de Mary Shelley et il est tout aussi voir meme plus passionnant.
Le fait de suivre en parallèle l'histoire de Mary Shelley et de son descendant, en la personne de Ry Shelley, chirurgien trans est tout simplement une idée de genie. Les deux histoires se mèlent et il est impossible de làcher ce roman. Le lecteur doute de qui est qui et c'est brilliant. Cet autrice est vraiment brilliante.
Les questionnements sur l'intelligence artificielle, la vie eternelle, l'amour, ce qu'est d'être humain, les modifications du corps humain, l'optimisation du corps par la robotique, la tolérance,....sont tous abordés dans ce roman foisonnant.
Il montre à quel point les questionnements posés par Mary Shelley sont toujours d'actualité.
Bref ce roman est épique et magistral. Je comprends qu'il ai été dans les finalistes du Booker Prize.
L'ecriture est sublime. Les personnages sont complexes et évolus tout au long du roman.
Quant à l'histoire d'amour, il y en a plusieurs Mary Shelley et son mari bien sur, mais egalement l'artiste et son oeuvre, le scientifique et ses theories, l'ame et le corps, l'etre humain et la foi, sont toutes des histoires d'amour abordées ici. Et c'est absolument magique.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
My attention was like a rollercoaster reading this…. Halfway through I became interested - and then not. Unfortunately one of those books in the end I just wanted to finish. I love the idea, I just wish it had more knowledge and depth on the subjects covered.
"She said, Those words are spoken not by Victor Frankenstein, but by his creature.
We are the same, the same, answered Frankenstein."
'Frankissstein' is beyond a plain summarative description...if I may try, though, it follows two alternating and overlapping narratives. In the first, Mary Shelley writes her famous novel. In the second, Ry Shelley, a transgender person in the modern day, traverses a tentative love with Victor Stein, an AI professor.
This is so far up my alley I want to live in it. Such a high-concept novel which delivers (excuse the...pun?) on its premise tenfold. I love when authors just go for a big idea and don't hold back. The idea of Mary Shelley and her close literary friends being trapped in some sort of reincarnation-like loop across decades is insanely fascinating--and the fact it goes unacknowledged by those very characters, too?? So good. So mysterious.
This is a novel which will tricklefeed you its own premise while supplying you with plenty to bite into...with all the facts and stories told throughout, it felt to me deeply educational as well as entertaining. Because the main cast is morally diverse, there's some balanced commentary on topics like AI and sexbots--the potential for good and the practise of harm. I also related to a lot of Ry's feelings about gender (the need to customise oneself and shrug off the imposed chains of sex). I liked the almost detached feeling of their narration, which worked as justaxposition in the intimate passages.
I guess I preferred Mary Shelley's segments to Ry's, but both are strong. I wish we got to find out just a little more about Ry and even Victor...though their secretive nature speaks its own volumes, I would have loved to at least get a bit more of their relationship. Also, Ron is a glowing example of how to make a bigoted character both hilarious and human. His dialogue was so damn funny sometimes. Left me...heh...in stitches.
I'm breathless after this <3
We are the same, the same, answered Frankenstein."
'Frankissstein' is beyond a plain summarative description...if I may try, though, it follows two alternating and overlapping narratives. In the first, Mary Shelley writes her famous novel. In the second, Ry Shelley, a transgender person in the modern day, traverses a tentative love with Victor Stein, an AI professor.
This is so far up my alley I want to live in it. Such a high-concept novel which delivers (excuse the...pun?) on its premise tenfold. I love when authors just go for a big idea and don't hold back. The idea of Mary Shelley and her close literary friends being trapped in some sort of reincarnation-like loop across decades is insanely fascinating--and the fact it goes unacknowledged by those very characters, too?? So good. So mysterious.
This is a novel which will tricklefeed you its own premise while supplying you with plenty to bite into...with all the facts and stories told throughout, it felt to me deeply educational as well as entertaining. Because the main cast is morally diverse, there's some balanced commentary on topics like AI and sexbots--the potential for good and the practise of harm. I also related to a lot of Ry's feelings about gender (the need to customise oneself and shrug off the imposed chains of sex). I liked the almost detached feeling of their narration, which worked as justaxposition in the intimate passages.
I guess I preferred Mary Shelley's segments to Ry's, but both are strong. I wish we got to find out just a little more about Ry and even Victor...though their secretive nature speaks its own volumes, I would have loved to at least get a bit more of their relationship. Also, Ron is a glowing example of how to make a bigoted character both hilarious and human. His dialogue was so damn funny sometimes. Left me...heh...in stitches.
I'm breathless after this <3
Interesting ideas, but in my opinion too many ideas and not enough story / character development. Many of the characters were caricatures (intentional or not?). The chapters about Mary Shelley were the most agreeable to read. The end was disappointing - or I just did not understand it.
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just a disclaimer that my reviews are notes to myself.
As a computer scientist and lover of Frankenstein, I’m embarrassed that I never realized Lovelace was Lord Byron’s daughter. As a nonbinary person with a complicated relationship to labels who has been SA’d, this book felt written for me.
I loved this book. I think the characterizations between the two timelines are so well done. I think the characters and their actions really speak for themselves in a way that other reviews are overlooking (god I hated Ron but I thought he was an interesting character. He misgendered Ry and was really dense but I have older family members like that. That’s literally who they are. It’s problematic and disgusting but just like Ron they’d pick me up and carry me out if I’m about to drown myself underground).
The discussions about ML/AI are pretty good and I’m wondering how they’ll age in the next couple decades. I think the comparison between Frankenstein’s monster and Victor’s vague ambitions felt a little forced - I don’t think we’re anywhere near there yet. I liked little tidbits throughout the book that were a nod to computer science history (Turing not referring to computers as computers at first brought me back to my first day of Automata when the professor posed Turing’s same question and was like the BRAIN guys we want to replicate the BRAIN). When I put it like that, the connection between the monster and AI is clear. But in so many ways I think we’ve strayed from what Turing initially proposed.
There’s no good way to write being assaulted. There’s no good way to write being infantilized and objectified by older men whose attention you for some reason seek. There’s no good way to write loving people who are bad. There’s no good way to write bad people. But those are all real and I think worth being written.
As a computer scientist and lover of Frankenstein, I’m embarrassed that I never realized Lovelace was Lord Byron’s daughter. As a nonbinary person with a complicated relationship to labels who has been SA’d, this book felt written for me.
I loved this book. I think the characterizations between the two timelines are so well done. I think the characters and their actions really speak for themselves in a way that other reviews are overlooking (god I hated Ron but I thought he was an interesting character. He misgendered Ry and was really dense but I have older family members like that. That’s literally who they are. It’s problematic and disgusting but just like Ron they’d pick me up and carry me out if I’m about to drown myself underground).
The discussions about ML/AI are pretty good and I’m wondering how they’ll age in the next couple decades. I think the comparison between Frankenstein’s monster and Victor’s vague ambitions felt a little forced - I don’t think we’re anywhere near there yet. I liked little tidbits throughout the book that were a nod to computer science history (Turing not referring to computers as computers at first brought me back to my first day of Automata when the professor posed Turing’s same question and was like the BRAIN guys we want to replicate the BRAIN). When I put it like that, the connection between the monster and AI is clear. But in so many ways I think we’ve strayed from what Turing initially proposed.
There’s no good way to write being assaulted. There’s no good way to write being infantilized and objectified by older men whose attention you for some reason seek. There’s no good way to write loving people who are bad. There’s no good way to write bad people. But those are all real and I think worth being written.
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loved Ry