Review: Very smart, funny book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
This is the first Platt and Truant book/season I've read.The first episode got me curious and I read the entire series. It's very well written, compelling, and quite funny. When I started reading Robot Proletariat I thought it would be a book I put into my rotation to read a few pages before going to bed, but I quickly started making excuses to read a few more pages though out the day.Some people have said this book is "I, Robot" from the robot point of view and that's fair, yet incomplete. It isn't Dowton Abby on diodes, either. There is a fair amount of philosophizing in Robot Proletariat where the robots can stand in for humans. I could go on about some ideas they seem to be exploring about the ways people objectify other people, consciousness, etc., but that would be boring. Oh, and there are a couple of hilarious sexbots, too.I bet if I wanted to pick at it I could find some problems with Robot Proletariat, but the characters are engaging, the writing is clear and direct, and the story moves along nicely, providing laughs along the way. So why pick? I like the book a lot and am looking forward to reading other Platt and Truant works.