I, Robot

To Protect

De: Mickey Zucker Reichert

Narrado por: Alma Cuervo

The best-selling author of the popular Renshai series, Mickey Zucker Reichert pens I, Robot: To Protect - the first in a trilogy inspired by the Isaac Asimov classic I, Robot. It’s the year 2035, and robot psychologist Dr. Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a teaching hospital where patients are being injected with diagnostic nanobots. Before long, Susan realizes that the injections portend dire consequences - and that the nanobots are being used to facilitate a deadly scheme.

©2011 The Estate of Isaac Asimov (P)2012 Recorded Books, LLC

excellent book.

would listen to the point til I was late to work. i would highly recommend read

Very interesting origin story for the series.

It was just so so. It kept me engaged but not riveted in anyway. It felt like a cheeseburger you eat and then feel sorta satisfied after it’s done. I’m glad I finished it, but was it worth the ‘calories’

Not so much about i Robots or it's subject

Very little about the i Robot series and subject matter. But will probably continue listening to the series

Also an intimate look at a MD first year residency

What did you love best about I, Robot?

I was expecting a typical Asimov robot story but instead experienced what it was like for Dr Calvin's first year residency. The book is a teaching experience in psychology.

What does Alma Cuervo bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Alma Cuervo put you into the life of Susan Calvin even better than what one would do in reading words on pages.

Awesome

I like the narrator who so easily makes the story come to life.
The story is awesome. I like how the author expects an intelligent audience and makes no apologies for outlining detailed medical cases and asks philosophical questions that make you think.

Merely Okay

The story took so long to develop I had to force myself to finish.

The performance was fine, just a personal dislike for her voice.

An old friend

What did you love best about I, Robot?

The author brings back to life an old friend, the legendary Dr. Susan Calvin. This book definitely feels like it could have been written by Isaac Asimov. In fact, I think this author is better at writing for female characters than Asimov was. Susan Calvin's character is full of warmth and a depth that it hasn't seen before. It is a must-read for Asimov fans.

What did you like best about this story?

Getting to know Dr. Susan Calvin better.

What does Alma Cuervo bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

She sounds like Dr Calvin always sounded in my head.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, but I had to force myself to take breaks.

Any additional comments?

I really miss Isaac Asimov. Its great that someone can add more to the Asimov experience and, in some ways, exceed it.

A really awesome listen

The story is compelling and the reader was absolutely magnificent. I haven’t been that into a book for years.

NOT I, Robot... should be I, Child Psychiatrist

and I MET an I, Robot... 90% of this book is about a child Psychiatrist. 7% is a love story and 3% is about a robot! (ok, MAYBE 3%)
Furthermore, the main "bad guy" is a 4 great old criminal mastermind (no exaggeration) bent on MURDER because... and I quote "she's just mean" so says the grandma and the CHILD PSYCHIATRIST!!!
oh, the child is also inhumanly super strong and can't be held by two grown adults... a four year old... and she also plans and executes an escape from a guarded, locked mental facility. A FOUR year old... by herself. Just absurd!!

I'm sorry but a scifi book with the name I, Robot... should be a scifi book. Give it a better name.

Insipid. Really does not help determine how Susan Calvin got into psychohistory

The writer has clearly no understanding of character development and emotional and human inner life.

This provides a lot of background that essentially shows Susan Calvin as cold hearted. It is fine when she is in the psych ward, learning about patients, treating them, etc. beyond that the rest of the story is pretty ridiculous. Her relationship with Remington whom is seemingly perfect in all he says and does is so unrealistic. He is the one shining star of humanity when it comes to being a surgeon and a human being in general. I kept waiting for it to be reveled that he was a humanoid android. She clearly was trying to be neutral in all her medical treatments and dealings with patients. Her descriptions in her personal life and relationship with Remington is as warm as ice cream while we were supposed to believe there was some deep love developing between them over a matter of days, or is it weeks? Examples, a 4 year old patient commits a horrible crime and puts her in a spin of self doubt. After she and Dr. Remmie discuss with parents they decide it was time to not put off their date any further and it would be good to get away to something lighter. Spoiler alert, when something else tragic happens at the end, and there is always something tragic at the end, she cries her heart out feeling like she will never get over the loss just like her father never got over his wife/her mother’s death. An absurd comparison and narcissistic view of yourself. As soon as she starts to wake up in a hospital she starts chatting it up with a slew of people, from her hospital bed and after crying until her heart just left her, she is talking about the future of robotics. This is seriously a person I would want to steer clear of except outside of the most impassioned of professions. Maybe that lack of a human interior life made her perfect for robotics.

Another over the top personal relationship…something tragic happens and the family involved just immediately does not blame the doctors involved and their potential part in treatment, like any grieving family does in the heat of tragedy. Yeah, right. Sounds so false.

Story was also mind numbingly technical. Her medical diagnosis of patients whose obscure root causes of illnesses of many patients on day one, in spite of these patients having top drawer medical treatment, was really absurd. Maybe one patient. The relationship of symptoms and causes, in excruciating detail and knowledge of obscure diseases causes and symptoms would require robotic memory. Every patient issues was laboriously explained made my brain roll over. Same with all the engineering details of nanotechnology and development of the positronic brain were also stupefyingly deep.

The performance further supported an image of a cold hearted automaton for its utter lack of warmth. I gave it 3 stars based on an assumption that this was the intention.