Weston+Riesselman

February 13, 2011. I have read to Page 192 and have finished the book In these last 150 pages I have read several short stories that Asimov has created in this book. They range from creating the first human brain with robot functions to solve and understand problems to finding robots that do not follow the first law of robotics. What I found difficult about this book is that in many of the stories he kept the same names for the characters which became difficult to follow from story to story. Also he added new characters that were only in the story for a short time and then were not spoke of again. He was very inconsistent with his story set up and character usage. Although these stories are difficult to follow they really made me think how possible some of the ideas were. Also the logic that he had used was always backed up with knowledge that he had previously give you in the book which I think would have been the most difficult part of this book. The most interesting part in this book was in the story, __Escape!__. At on point in this book Doctor Calvin dies but she is describing her "death life". She is telling us that when she died she feels like she is only sleeping but without being able to wake up. She is mentally preparing herself to be stuck with just her thoughts for eternity. The last thing I found interesting in this book is that he explained how the use of robotics came about in the last story. He let us wonder, for the entire book, how his creations came to be until the very last story. He made us draw our own conclusion before he let the truth out. The great thing is, the truth made sense and seems very logical and even possible.

February 4, 2011. I have read to Page 41 In this section Mr. and Mrs. Weston have brought Gloria to the city to help get her mind off of Robbie. Although the parents think that they are helping her she is becoming more addicted to having Robbie around. Any moving metallic object catches her eye and she looks for it. She then starts to think that the trip to the city is so that they can look for Robbie and bring him home which makes Mrs. Weston very upset. Last they go into a robot plant to finish their stay in the city. She sees that Robbie is in there and runs to greet him I am starting to see same type of plot in this book as in the movie __I, Robot__. The difference is that Gloria is Detective Spooner (Will Smith) and Robbie is the robot that Spooner is looking for. Many lines and quotes in this section are very similar or the same in the movie and the book.

January 24, 2011. The author I have chosen is Isaac Asimov and the book I have read is __I, Robot.__ I have read 21 pages in this book. The first 20 pages I have read is introducing the main robot made Robbie. It is the best friend of Gloria an 8 year old child. Gloria is rejecting all other animals and even other children for the robot. Mrs. Weston is attempting to break the child from the robot and Mr. Weston is trying to keep the robot because it was such a large investment. Mr. Weston final breaks and gets rid of Robbie and replaces it with a dog but Gloria becomes depressed over not having Robbie. The main character is Gloria who is an 8 year old girl that rejects all forms of life for a robot named Robbie.

January 13, 2011. Today I created my fantastic Wiki in 8th Hour English! GO PACKERS!!!