A review by jaclyncrupi
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

2.0

When Ian McEwan gets it right boy does he get it right. But when he gets it wrong he gets it very very wrong (see Solar, Sweet Tooth etc.). Machines Like Me is very very wrong. It’s not good. In fact, it’s bad. Really bad. His handling of sexual assault and rape is problematic AF. He makes androids boring (the only good bit is when Charlie is mistaken for the droid), he writes haiku, he drones on and on about Turing. Every ‘big idea’ he grapples with has been grappled with before in fiction and in better and more interesting ways than his attempts. I don’t care about his alternative history. Also, what’s with the kid, Mark, and McEwan acting like 22-year-old Miranda wants to adopt him. She’s 22! Wtf was that? Ok, I’m going just to pretend he never wrote this and this book does not exist. There, fixed.