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Laddar... The Complete Roderickav John Sladek
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Roderick is a robot who learns. He begins life looking like a toy tank, thinking like a child, and knowing nothing about human ways. But as he will discover, growing up and becoming fully human is no easy task in a world where many people seem to have little trouble giving up their humanity. The Complete Roderick is widely considered to be the most ambitious and genius work of a novelist described by The Encyclopedia of ScienceFiction as "the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern US science fiction writers." Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg: (3.04)
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The Complete Roderick is a very funny book, at times with delicious absurdity, but more often than not in a bleak, satiric way that takes aim at an amazingly diverse range of targets. Think "I, Robot" meets "Catch-22," and you won't be far wrong. It also offers lots of oddball supporting characters, who seem to pop in and out without ever going anyplace.
The book has many moments of brilliance, including chapters that could stand alone as miniature masterpieces. But unfortunately it doesn't hang together all that well as a novel. It also eventually begins to feel rather repetitive. How many times do we really need to go through O'Smith being thwarted in an effort to knock off our protagonist?
This is a book that could have been a masterpiece, but doesn't quite get there. It might have worked better as a shorter episodic "mosaic" novel. Or benefited from some aggressive editing.
Still, I am glad I read it. (