Robopocalypse: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson (

Robopocalypse just isn't my cup of tea. It has taken me nearly a week to read, which for me is an excessively long time. I got to the halfway point of the book and even though it was tedious, I had already invested so much time in it, I had to finish it.

I hoped that it would improve ---- but it didn't. This book has been called or referred to as

Crichtonesque --- to compare the writing and story line to Crichton is a travesty. This book reads like a script, the characters are flat and all eerily similar. The narration is dry.

Each chapter is narrated by a different character but the narration and characters are so dull it doesn't really make reading the book more enjoyable. The book is way to plot driven --- characters have very little depth.

This book is unsatisfying. There are a lot of excellent apocalyptic and post apocalyptic books out there ---- so it's best to leave this one alone.

As a side note this book, is being made into a movie directed by Spielberg.

Grade: F

Overview [B&N]

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.

In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans – a single mother disconcerted by her daughter’s menacing “smart” toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a ‘pacification unit’ go haywire – but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.