Tell the Machine Goodnight

Posted on 19 March 2017 by Katie Williams

Pearl s job is to make people happy Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment She s good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful But how does one measure an emotion Meanwhile, there s Pearl s teenage son, Rhett A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy The very rejection of joy is his own kind of pursuit of happiness As his mother, Pearl wants nothing than to help Rhett but is it for his sake or for hers Certainly it would make Pearl happier Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either.Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett s world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about relationships and the ways that they can most surprise and define us Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes and technology What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little clearly. New Download Tell the Machine Goodnight [ author ] Katie Williams [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr It feels so good to have enjoyed a novel so fully that I read it in a day and a half What had me so keen on the premise of Tell the Machine Goodnight is a the fact that the synopsis playfully illuminates our national obsession with positiv...I really love speculative fiction, so this was right up my alley Imagine if there were a machine that could tell you exactly what you needed to do to be happier Pearl works for the creators of Apricity, a device that does exactly that, and spends her days providing people with this coveted advice.Tell the Machine Goodnight is about Pearl and the people who are part of her life her son, Rhett, who suffers from anorexia and stubbornly embraces his melancholy her boss, Carter, who manipulates t I really love speculative fiction, so this was right up my alley Imagine if there were a machine that could tell you exactly what you needed to do to be happier Pearl works for the creators of Apricity, a device that does exactly that, and spends her days providing people with this coveted advice.Tell the Machine Goodnight is about Pearl and the people who are part of her life her son, Rhett, who suffers from anorexia and stubbornly embraces his melancholy her boss, Carter, who manipulates the Apricity into delivering advice to attain power and Calla Pax, a young celebrity who commissions Pearl to deliver daily Apricity readings There s also Pearl s ex husband and his new wife, who hide mysterious secrets from each other.The bizarre and fascinating vignettes from each o...The first blurb I ve written in a while Tell the Machine Goodnight is philosophical, funny, cleverly structured, unpredictable The characters are recognizably humans, but not ones I have met before the world building is creative and completely convincing I doubt I will ever read another novel with a...Half star to one star rating Started out with some possibility of promise and then went downhill quickly from there Characters unlikeable The Story was rather boring and not exciting at all The premise was how much control do we have over our own happiness and what if we could be pushed to achieve it by technology The concept sounded intriguing but the execution fell flat.In a future time, people will find happiness through a machine a system The main character, Pearl, is a happiness tec Half star to one star rating Started out with some possibility of promise and then went downhill quickly from there Characters unlikeable The Story was rather boring and not exciting at all The premise was how much control do we have over our own happiness and what if we could be pushed to achieve it by technology The concept sounded intriguing but the execution fell flat.In a future time, people will find happiness through a machine a system The main character, Pearl, is a happiness technician using a system at her job, called Apricity Yet she has unhappiness in her life Go figure Her son has an unhealthy eating habit and so he s not happy either, evidently SoWhere is the happiness machine when these...Multiple narrators, pointless detail, unlikeable characters, and a unsatisfying ending all added up to a waste of my time and made me grumpy.I felt like this book piqued my interest but had no point It was a masturbatory exercise that I enjoyed initially and thought was going somewhere but really had no point or purpose I like my stories to make ...I have no idea what the plot was.The changing POV s and the half truths revealed were confusing.It felt like I was reading modern philosophy rather than a story.So why did I give it 4 stars I still have no idea.The writing is amazing even if it doesn t make any sense.What if you could turn happiness into a consumer product What if a machine could tell you simple instructions to achieve it Eat tangerines, Arrange fresh flowers, Write poetry What if the pursuit of happiness became a guarantee This theme is explored in Katie Williams debut novel, which takes place in 2035 The response from the public, surprisingly, is not unanimous Sure, there are many individuals clamoring to buy happiness if they can afford it , but there are people who are skep What if you could turn happiness into a consumer product What if a machine could tell you simple instructions to achieve it Eat tangerines, Arrange fresh flowers, Write poetry What if the pursuit of happiness became a guarantee This theme is explored in Katie Williams debut novel, which takes place in 2035 The response from the public, surprisingly, is not unanimous Sure, there are many individuals clamoring to buy happiness if they can afford it , but there are people who are skeptical, others who prefer UNhappiness, and those that would prefer to cultivate it themselves without technological interference How this plays out, and the effect it has on society, is the substance of this story.The protagonist, Pe...I thought this book was unique and awesome My ISBN says that this is the hardcover edition, but it is actually an ARC that I won in a giveaway, and it is one of those rare giveaway wins that I will treasure keep sing praises about I will return to this post to sing the praises at a later date, as I a...Eh I get what this book was trying to do, but it was a little too avant garde for me Everything about this book had a sort of vibe It was sort of a futuristic It was sort of funny It was sort of sad It was definitely a commentary on our times I sort of got it, until I didn t.

19 March 2017

Katie Williams