Run Program

By: Scott Meyer

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

What's worse than a child with a magnifying glass, a garden full of ants, and a brilliant mind full of mischief?

Try Al, a well-meaning but impish artificial intelligence with the mind of a six-year-old and a penchant for tantrums. Hope Takeda, a lab assistant charged with educating and socializing Al, soon discovers that day care is a lot more difficult when your kid is an evolving and easily frightened A.I.

When Al manages to access the Internet and escape the lab days before his official unveiling, Hope and her team embark on a mission to contain him - before he causes any real trouble.

Soon the NSA is on Al's back, the US Army is fighting a brigade of mass-produced robots, and a wannabe cyberterrorist is looking to silence Al permanently. After months spent "raising" Al, Hope knows she's running out of time - and she's not sure she'll be able to protect him. Will she manage to control the unruly A.I. and quell a global crisis, or will Al outsmart them once and for all?

©2017 Scott Meyer (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Another amazing success!

Mybe we just have a very similar sense of humor; whatever the case may be, Meyer has a way of making a story extremely entertaining, funny, and original. I couldn't stop listening until the whole book was finished.

Can't wait until the next book by Meyer!

off-putting at first, fantastic once in.

Narrator sounds odd in sample. The narrator is odd at first and takes some getting used to but once accustomed she does a fantastic job. Fantastic story great ending!

Probably one of the best potentials

I won't spoil it, but I will say I very much enjoyed this book and an glad to see AI getting some well deserved attention in this way. =)

Fun read!

The story is very well written, engaging characters, and the narrator conveys the storyline very well.

Wrong narrator!

A decent story, though not nearly as delightful as Meyer’s Magic 2.0 series. The problem was the narrator, who was way too gruffly serious for the tongue-in-cheek style of the author. All the jokes fell flat, and her narrative inflection was just plain weird, most especially when saying the word “said.” I’ve never heard that word so overemphasized before. It was distracting. Her character voices were quite good. I’d listen to her read about kidnapping or espionage. Nothing lighter than that, though.

Thought provoking young adult narrative

Great narration, inspiring story. Reminds you that our perspectives are usually flawed and very one-sided

The best 90's scifi movie in audio format!

If you like cheesy 90's movies, then this is your book. Expect all the characters to be 1D for the most part, except the AI. Just remove all disbelief and enjoy the camp! Envision Emma Stone as the main character, and Jesse Eisenberg as the clumsy but lovable "athletic" nerd. Include The Rock (love interest of course), Judy Dench (hard commander), Samuel L. Jackson (because he's in every movie), and Michelle Rodriguez (the unobtainable solder). This is exactly what this book was written for. Make me an overpriced movie!

Thank Heavens for Angela Dawe

Members only 85% sale. I purchased this book as a huge fan of Ms Dawe, l own over 100 of her reads. Don’t miss Julie Garwood’s Sweet Talk, great fun read by ms Dawe.
Sci Fi is not my genre but this had some fun dialogue which ms Dawe nailed. This author is not for me but this was a cute story.
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Not as good as magic 2.0, but not as bad as Master of formality

Well... Hard to follow characters thru the story... Not as good as Magic 2.0, but not as bad as Master of formality

Interesting story

The story is worth a listen but whenever the reader is reading parts where it's "<character> said" all sound like they are from one recording or synthesized. And most dialog in the second half of the book uses said, hearing that so often really breaks the connection to the story.