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This is a wonderful book that addresses many current issues and was the catalyst of one of the best discussions of the year in our book group. I have revisited the book several times and gave it as a gift to friends and family members during this holiday season. There is so much to absorb and examine about technology, communication, women, and the impact of the choices that we make on a daily basis. The writing is strong and the separate voices of the narrators make a powerful impact. I am glad that I found this book.


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Speak A Novel Louisa Hall Books Reviews

I tried to read this as I do most books, a bite at a time, bites separated by day or days between. I fear this is not the way to do it justice. Think it should have been done in big chunks, so as to be carried along, more aware of ties between characters. Some lovely quotes/observations.
"Speak" is a story of the future written partly through the fictionalized letters of real life inventors (including Alan Turing) of the past. The first-person narrative moves between trial notes, a man's memoir from prison, letters, and the final thoughts of an android, weaving together to create one overarching story in various parts. It is uniquely moving and quietly ambitious.
This book took me by surprise. The author very effectively uses a tricky format of multiple personal narratives over a long timeline. She switches back and forth across centuries to interconnect unlikely characters. Using this device, she explores our need for intimacy, our need to be understood and appreciated, even if we must find a surrogate to accept that role. A pet, a lover, or even a robotic simulcron can fill that need.
I don't write reviews but I felt the need to record my impressions on this one. Best read of the year for me, and I read a lot. I have recommended it to several others, and would do so to you.
Its a good concept, but it alternates between a few perspectives, a couple of which are boring. The one about Turing is inferior in comparison to the imitation game, and she does one from the perspective of the robot which I could have done without. But you could skip those chapters and just read the ones that detail her conception of artificial intelligence, which is sort of interesting.
Powerful, poignant, and deep, Speak has an unusual structure, weaving together six narrative voices that together illuminate a link between the creation of artificial intelligence and the fundamental human yearning for connection. When I started the book its nonlinear format put me off, but it took just a few chapters for me to become totally hooked. The narrators include a Pilgrim or Puritan girl leaving her former life behind to journey to America, AI pioneer and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing, and a now illegal, slowly “dying” babybot--a doll of the future so lifelike and compelling that children who had one couldn’t bond with people--as it slowly loses power and memory.
Fabulous book written by an amazing new author, Louisa Hall. I loved her past book and this one is about how humans express and relate to each other with the future implications for artificial intelligence sprinkled throughout. The plot is too complicated to describe here, but suffice it to say, it is a character driven book which shifts between time and geography and has a focus on five key characters and what they are trying to do to connect with other people in poignant ways in different time periods ranging from wartime England (Alan Turing) to a Puritan woman in the new world in a not-so-great marriage, and several other characters (Jewish refugee) and a computer scientist. These all take place in different time periods but the themes of expression, the need for human connection (and the gaps when it doesn't occur) as well the implications of artificial intelligence are all woven together wonderfully. Loved it! I think Ms. Hall is a future PEN Award writer!
This is a difficult one to review. Really this book in my estimation is a 3.5 stars but the writing itself was so good and I felt so absorbed in the narrative that I was able to overlook some of the flaws. I think comparing this book to Cloud Atlas is wrong and probably unfair. Really other than a shift in perspectives and timelines there are really no similarities between the two books. All these characters that were developed here felt real and I became absorbed in their narratives (with the girl headed to America on the boat I became increasingly less interested the more the story unfolded and I began to question what the point of it was, and really it’s link to the overall narrative was very slim and just seemed unnecessary). As good as the writing is and as interesting some of the characters are, I became somewhat bothered by the fact that everything and everyone’s story seemed to be taking place in the past. I wanted some kind of update on the present but except for a few side notes or chapter headings all the characters seemed to be having flashback or telling us something that happened years ago. I guess maybe the conversation between the girl and the computer take place in the present but even that felt like some was retelling something. Also for a book supposedly about A.I I felt there was really very little actually about A.I. Yes we have some conversations between a girl and a computer but that’s about it. Nothing really too in depth there. I think though my biggest critique of this book, even though the writing was excellent and the characters were all interesting and complex, was that nothing too remarkable ever happened. Nothing really unexpected. For me there were no great insights or surprises and seemed to end with a whimper rather than a thud. Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a book worth reading, but I don’t think it’s as good as a lot of other books our there right now.
This is a wonderful book that addresses many current issues and was the catalyst of one of the best discussions of the year in our book group. I have revisited the book several times and gave it as a gift to friends and family members during this holiday season. There is so much to absorb and examine about technology, communication, women, and the impact of the choices that we make on a daily basis. The writing is strong and the separate voices of the narrators make a powerful impact. I am glad that I found this book.