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In the Lives of Puppets

di TJ Klune

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In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots, fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio, a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?… (altro)
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4.25⭐ ( )
  Levitara | Apr 5, 2024 |
I think this story could have been great and will be for a lot of people. I just can't get into sentient machines which is a major theme running throughout.

The acknowledgement section at the end left a bad taste in my mouth. TJ Klune suggests quite strongly that this was not the novel he wanted to write and had to rewrite and leave out a lot. I felt disappointed that I had not read the book he intended it to be.

I really liked the supporting characters, Nurse Ratched in particular. Her cavalier attitude towards violence really made me laugh.

As with all TJ's books, there is a strong theme of identity and acceptance which is beautiful. ( )
  Incredibooks | Mar 1, 2024 |
I really struggled to get through this one! The characters felt more abrasive then Klune's previous works, not sure if it was just the personalities of the robots being more one note, or the fact that it was pretty repetitive. I also think it comes out an awkward time media wise with SO many pinnochio retellings! Maybe it's just not for me, but it didn't hit the right note in terms of story or pacing for me. ( )
  eboods | Feb 28, 2024 |
In the Lives of Puppets is a lovely, quirky, heartfelt dystopian tale from T.J. Klune!
It's the singularity on steroids, with the "puppets" in the title actual robots, AIs, androids, etc. with a human mixed in.
Shades of Pinocchio and WALL-E with queer representation.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Daniel Henning who does an amazing job bringing Rambo, Nurse Ratched, HAP, Victor and Gio to life. I especially loved that little vacuum, Rambo. Adorable! ( )
  deslivres5 | Feb 25, 2024 |
Leer a T. J. Klune es irse a la segura, es una lectura cálida, acogedora. Este es el tercer libro que leo del autor y no me defraudo, me gustó mucho más que “Under the Whispering Door”.

En medio del bosque en una casa entre árboles inmensos, aislado de todo, vive Giovanni Lawson, un inventor. No es un inventor cualquiera es un robot, lo acompañan una aspiradora robot llamada “Rambo” neurótica y ansiosa, una enfermera robot sociópata llamada “Ratched” y su hijo Víctor que también es inventor, pero es humano. Un día Victor encontrará entre la chatarra un androide (Hap) que vendrá a trastocar su apacible vida de una forma que jamás lo hubiera imaginado.

En esta obra tenemos una reinterpretación de Pinocho de Carlo Collodi en clave de ciencia ficción con representación Lgbtq+. Es una lectura entretenida, de a poco se nos van dando datos del estado del mundo actual, ¿hay más humanos?, ¿porque Víctor está ahí?, ¿porque viven al parecer aislados? Todo tiene respuesta a lo largo de la obra y no siempre es la que esperamos.

Lo mejor son los robots, Rambo, la aspiradora es uno de los mejores “sidekick” de la historia que junto a la enfermera psicópata son una dupla increíble. La historia de Victor es preciosa y su personaje junto al de Hap tiene un buen desarrollo.

En todo el libro hay referencias indirectas y directas a la obra de Collodi como también a otras como El Mago de Oz o a libros de Asimov pero de una forma que no está siendo utilizada como copia para sostener el relato más bien como una forma de presentarnos pequeños guiños de la obra que inspiro el texto. El autor da mucha importancia en particular a un tema musical de la película Top Hat, “Cheek to Cheek” de 1935, que nos acompañara durante toda la obra.

Hay algo de representación de la “asexualidad” y este tratado de una forma orgánica no forzada siendo el tema de la sexualidad del protagonista algo que pasa a segundo plano.

Finalmente es una obra que nos habla de la Humanidad, de lo que significa ser humano, de las decisiones que debemos tomar y de la libertad que tenemos para hacerlo, por sobre todo de la importancia de la amistad, de la belleza en la diversidad, de la terquedad, el egoísmo y todas esas características que nos definen como seres únicos y maravillosos.

“…Above All Else Be Brave” ( )
  Transitus | Jan 14, 2024 |
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FOR HUMANITY: You kinda suck, but you invented books and music, so the universe will probably keep you around for a little bit longer. You got lucky. This time.
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In an old and lonely forest, far away from almost everything, sat a curious dwelling.

At the base of a grove of massive trees was a small, square building made of brick, overtaken by ivy and moss. Who it belonged to was anyone's guess, but from the looks of it, it had been abandoned long ago. It wasn't until a man named Giovanni Lawson (who wasn't actually a man at all) came across it while making his way through the fore that it was remembered with any purpose.
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In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots, fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio, a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?

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