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Annie Bot
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." — Esquire
"Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." — New Scientist
For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard.
She’s learning, too.
Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie’s relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?
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- SushiGIrl
- 2024-03-31
Really well done
I loved this book. It was beautifully written and challenging in the right ways. A superb character-driven exploration of humanity through non-humanity, but subtle and layered.
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- Madison Ketelaars
- 2024-04-17
Loved this book!!!
I loved this book! Through Greer's storytelling, she calls out patriarchal values and shows how many men would treat women when they think there are no consequences. Annie, being an AI droid, has no choice but to obey her 'boyfriend' (owner!), who deludes himself into thinking that she wants to please him because she is in love with him. He is rude and abusive to her and yet justifies this because "she is his property." This book is complex and I loved it and I appreciate the ending.
The only reason I gave the performance 4 stars is because whilst the narrator does a FANTASTIC job, I think she makes Doug sound more severe and harsh than the book would make him seem. I think her tone for him maybe should have been more subtle, which would show even more the every day normalized aggressions from men against women.
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- Terilyn Lemaire
- 2024-03-26
So, so good
Such a well-written, interesting, entertaining listen! I took one star off the performance only because the narrator's interpretation of Doug always made him sound somewhat vicious and angry, even during his more nuanced, tender moments. Annie's character arc was fascinating and engaging and I loved the ending - I truly didn't know which was it would go. SO good.
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- Matthew
- 2024-04-04
Achingly well written.
I love stories about AI and robots, but most of them are not very well written. This one is. Extremely thought-provoking, about topics that will be coming up in just a few short years.
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