As an opening venture, some of us have been reading Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Machines Like Me. We were meant to meet to discuss it, but it has proved impossible to get folk together so this blog will be our virtual meeting point.<\/p>\n
I’ll just mention a few things I enjoyed, admitting straight away that I’m a long term McEwan fan, and hope that you will comment on what you thought.<\/p>\n
Firstly, note that the title can be read in two ways, which immediately presents an ambivalence. Typical of his writing and central to this work, I enjoyed his weaving of the main theme, the moral dilemma facing society regarding machine intelligence , with the sub-plots of the dystopian Britain\u00a0 ( a simile for\u00a0 the Brexit future?) and the human stories.<\/p>\n
I am not sure about the reason for his\u00a0 distortion of recent history, except perhaps to illustrate more vividly what the near future holds for the UK both politically and socially.<\/p>\n
OK? \u00a0 Now lets have your views.<\/p>\n
Tony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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