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A review by matterofact
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell
1.0
I couldn’t finish this book. I was enticed by this book’s fantastic cover art, and the title seemed to indicate it would be a somewhat philosophical look at transhumanism, to dip your toes into the theory.
The way this book is written is insufferable. To demonstrate this, here is a line from the book - ‘Randall did not disagree that this was ubdesirable’.
THREE NEGATIVES IN ONE SENTENCE. JUST SAY RANDALL AGREED WITH THIS!!!!
This whole book reads like a popular journalist walking round and laughing at something he doesn’t care to properly understand. It’s like he read an article about brain emulation, thought ‘huh that’s stupid’ and then decided to write an entire book about how ridiculous it all is, but then when he finished it was only like 100 pages long, so he went back and added a load of irrelevant crap about weed drifting through the bay air and making the sentences about 3 lines longer than they were initially to make his book visibly longer and therefore more legit from the outside.
Don’t waste your time with this pretentious rubbish.
The way this book is written is insufferable. To demonstrate this, here is a line from the book - ‘Randall did not disagree that this was ubdesirable’.
THREE NEGATIVES IN ONE SENTENCE. JUST SAY RANDALL AGREED WITH THIS!!!!
This whole book reads like a popular journalist walking round and laughing at something he doesn’t care to properly understand. It’s like he read an article about brain emulation, thought ‘huh that’s stupid’ and then decided to write an entire book about how ridiculous it all is, but then when he finished it was only like 100 pages long, so he went back and added a load of irrelevant crap about weed drifting through the bay air and making the sentences about 3 lines longer than they were initially to make his book visibly longer and therefore more legit from the outside.
Don’t waste your time with this pretentious rubbish.