Machines Like Me by Iwan McEwan, 2019 (Jonathan Cape) - intelligent mischief, complex characters, speculative fiction. I’ve read every one of McEwan’s novels, and this does not disappoint. Compelling read, even if the end was a bit flat.
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Complaining to my 18-year-old great-nephew about never having read The Odyssey, he said, “Read the graphic novel. It’s much better than the original.” Thanks, John. It was a great recommendation.
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In a museum in the small town of Bayeux in Normandy, specially devised to hold this single object, is a strip of linen nearly one thousand years old. It is 230 feet long and about 20 inches high. On it, embroidered in brightly colored wool, are figures of men, animals, buildings, and ships.
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