A review by janey
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell

4.0

This book was alternately funny, peculiar, clever, and depressing. I can't imagine being so disturbed by the concept of death as to spend one's entire adult life trying to figure out how to avoid it. In my view, that's a great way to never live at all. O'Connell feels much as I do, but gave the TransHumanists a fair chance to make their case. Anyway, I should also add that I started the book as a physical book and kind of drifted away from it, but then started it as an audiobook and was enchanted. It definitely gains something from being read aloud, and in this format O'Connell reminded me a bit of [a:Jon Ronson|1218|Jon Ronson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1428023511p2/1218.jpg], something to bear in mind if you like Ronson.