Eine Vorläufige Theorie Der Liebe (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I've never read a book like this before. What do I mean by that? Well, for one, this book is honest about the messiness of relationships, and all of the questions and self-doubt that occurs for most of us. Hutchins sprinkles hilarity throughout to lighten the seriousness of Neill's journey through relationships. I laughed, hard. I shed a few tears. Many times, I came across a sentence or paragraph that caused me to stop and think for a while. This is the type of book that causes the reader to drift off into self-reflection.I imagine the book particularly resonated with me because of the setting. I worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley for eight years. I also lost my father suddenly two years ago, and appreciated Hutchins' exploration of Neill's relationship with his father. The use of an AI to explore how relationships change over time is nothing short of brilliant.I think that in order to fully appreciate this book, the reader has to have lived and loved for a while, and/or lost a parent.I want to read more books like this, so if you know of any, tell me.I noted some of the passages that had particular impact on me as I was reading. The one below didn't fit in the update box."When you spend significant amounts of time with someone they offer constant feedback, becoming part of the patterning of your brain. In other words, part of you. But I take your point--constant feedback is not always deep feedback. A good measure of how much of you they've become is your level of distress when they're gone. If they form a large part of your patterning, then you'll experience a major culling of the self. That's what's known as grief." --Henry Livorno, speaking to the protagonist, Neill. We already live in the future. We just don’t think about it that way. The way we communicate is so far removed from actual communication that we think someone must have died every time our parents call us. We’re so used to people not listening that when someone remembers something about our lives we latch onto them with all our might and call it L*%&. We think that we’re much worse than we actually are and question when someone wants to spend time figuring us out. A few days after I returned this book to the library, I received a copy in the mail from Penguin. Apparently, I won a contest. So I immediately loaned it to a friend. Because I really want to talk to someone about technology and love and how technology affects the way we perceive love and relationships and human interaction in general. And, let’s face it, I always want to talk about these things. But it’s much more socially acceptable to pursue these talking points through the lens of literature.All that from a piece of fiction.
What do You think about Eine Vorläufige Theorie Der Liebe (2014)?
Good book for the hope at the end but not a favorite
—Lexxxxxx
Quite good. Emotional. Almost disturbingly real
—Irie
Robots, Romance and Rotarians.The three Ares?
—rriizzaa
