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Dense with info about the author’s family history and her father’s work. Fascinating, though didn’t always keep my attention.

Appropriate for adults.

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I'm sorry. It was boring.

This book works better in theory than it does actually reading it. So full of ideas; partly a memoir, an obsessive cataloging of human behaviors and thoughts, a philosophical text on AI, and a love story. There's a unique perspective with the author's father as well, a very well-known figure in some circles, especially transhumanist ones, which adds a lot of depth to the AI bits. I don't think I've read anything quite like it but all of this sometimes leads to jarring transitions, like sometimes I'd flip the page to a wall of letters or journals written by her grandfather and groan a little. Like, do I go through all this? I'm a little OCD too, Amy! Don't do this to me! But sometimes I did, sometimes I didn't. You get the gist. It made me think a lot of things though, intellectualizing a lot of its feelings. A favorite hobby of mine, personally.