In the Lives of Puppets

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While definitely worth the read, I just felt that this tale did not measure up to what I've come to expect from T.

Carlo Collodi's ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ serves as the foundation of this retelling, so if you know this classic children’s fairy tale, you will be able to understand just how faithful and innovative this retelling is. That we are more than what we look at ourselves at and it takes only for machines, our very own creations, to overpower us and take over the world, to understand our importance and significance. It’d taken Vic a long time to calm the machine down, fiddling with its circuits until the vacuum had sighed in relief. About halfway through the story, it changed from the peaceful, yet intriguing house in the woods to a quest.Quiet this, a solitary moment in an imperfect world where existence did not need to be proven or earned. Narrator Daniel Henning does a phenomenal job capturing Gio’s fatherliness and Vic’s early naivete, and he positively shines as the heartless, bloodthirsty Nurse Ratched and the anxiety-ridden robot vacuum Rambo.

I didn’t understand the obsession about sex and bodily functions and fluids and I found most of the characters extremely annoying. Sweet, adorable, hyperactive, silly Rambo who is way more than a roomba, though he does love cleaning with all his heart. When reading this, I couldn’t help but see constant shades of: WALL-E, Mass Effect 3, Terminator 2, Blade Runner, Fallout 4, and finally… The Iron Giant! A simple discussion between the characters about the group’s plan of action would often turn into several pages of word salad simply because the narrative saw it fit to add an endless number of inane jokes. The shriek he’d let out at the bone protruding wetly from his arm had been louder than any sound he’d made before.

Kllune lo ha vuelto a hacer, ha roto mi corazón pero también lo ha llenado de un sentimiento cálido y feliz.

A tiny vacuum robot screamed as it spun in concentric circles, spindly arms that ended in pincers waving wildly in the air.One day a distraught couple appear, the woman clutches a bundle of rags which proves to be a swaddled child. A story is nothing without its characters, and in this story, the characters deserve most of the credit for the book’s impact.