Embassy Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Can anyone tell me if this book would be considered inappropriate for younger readers who can handle things like the Lord of the Rings content? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 No problem. The book should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 No problem. The book should be fine. Thanks so much!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Oh good! My dad plans to give DS1 that book soon. :D DS is currently reading the LOTR series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecka Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) I haven't read that book in a while, but if I recall it is a series of short stories, all with a doctor who builds robots with positronic brains. In one of the short stories, there is a "defect" and in the very end she shocks the brain with a kind of gun. It has kind-of started to think for itself, either from a defect, or someone teaching it things, or not being built with the three laws, or something like that. But the movie with Will Smith based on that story is intense imo. And then that short story is intense in a way. I was not bothered at all as a child, but it seems a lot colder and upsetting as an adult, I guess. (Partly b/c as an adult I see the parent/child kind of relationships in a different way, and the woman doctor is presented in a way as a parent figure to the robots, a little.) But overall I would not go from the book to the movie. It is a very good book, by the way. It is short. Go ahead and read it, lol. I want to re-read it now myself. Edited August 4, 2012 by Lecka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas_mom Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Cool! I JUST picked this up at the library TODAY. My 9 yrs old son seems to like robots and we love Isaac Asimov. Thanks for the heads up about the book! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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