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This is a fun read, not meant to be taken seriously and from a few other reviews is seems that if you're a dilettante of Chandler you run the risk of being annoyed by Raymond Electromatic, the world’s last robot who has successfully transitioned from PI to hitman, because this novel continually tips its hat to that late, great author.

But I love Chandler and I wasn't annoyed in the slightest.

I liked Raymond's stoic view of his limitations - a 24 hour memory for starters - and place in this alternative LA. It's only slightly alternative, mind, because pretty much everything lines up with our history, apart from Raymond and his back office help, Ada.

So, this is a detective story in the hard-bitten gumshoe genre, with a reluctant/somewhat hero who stands apart as narrator of his own story and, importantly, the society in which he is embedded. Raymond is not as world weary as Chandler's iconic Marlowe, but he shares traits - wisecracking, tough and contemplative - and ultimately that measure of fairness for the underdog. Though Raymond's fairness does not preclude a little murder here and there.

Christopher keeps the plot boiling along nicely, peppers the story with interesting characters and makes the mystery cloudy enough that you won't guess it early in. I enjoyed it, and if you approach it as a fun little popcorn detective novel, you probably will too.


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Made to Kill A Ray Electromatic Mystery Ray Electromatic Mysteries Adam Christopher 9780765379184 Books Reviews

A quick, fun read. It's not Chandler by any stretch, and the plot is a little thin and kind of resolved too easily. But it's a fun read.
A failed attempt to fuse a '50s noir detective novel with an alternate sci-fi future.
Made to Kill is the result of an experimental question--if Raymond Chandler had written Science Fiction (which he professed to disdain) what would become of it? As an experiment, Adam Christopher's novel succeeds. It has the gritty feel of the big sleep, in a world where a robot detective, which we are often reminded is the LAST robot, walks the street.

But, this is where the novel's successes end. As genre fiction, it succeeds in imitation, but fails to engage anything further. It is not, for example, Inherent Vice--a similar genre fiction experiment set in a similar time frame. Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon, accepts the rules of Chandler's genre fiction and elevates the narrative bringing something (besides a robot) new to the table.

Instead of bringing something new to the table, Made To Kill is just a mashup of two genres, and neither genre performs beyond their mass-market capabilities. The cover blurbs compare Adam Christopher to Philip K. Dick or Isaac Asimov--I don't agree. There was none of Dick's paranoid weirdness or Asimov's technical vision.

If you're looking for a decent detective-cum-robot novel, and are happy reading safely within the mashed-up genres, this is the one. If you're hoping to read a novel that is more than the sum of its parts, you may want to keep looking.
I've read some of Mr. Christopher's other words and especially enjoyed his super hero stories. "Made To Kill" is some what in the same vein. Set in an alternate earth his main character is a robot detective who is reprogrammed into a professional assassin. I found it very interesting, plausible and I look forward to the next books in the trilogy.
I persevered until 60% of the way through this book, then gave up.

It's a great idea, but too repetitive ("I laughed, which sound like X doing Y", "Ada did Z, at least it felt to my circuits like she did") and the characters were too numerous and poorly defined for me.

Better to read an actual Raymond Chandler
I picked this book up from the library because I struck up a conversation with the author on Twitter about some of his other work. He was a super cool dude so I figured I’d read some of his other books. 4 chapters in I bought the book for myself.

It’s a witty novel filled with sarcastic characters. Especially the robot/computer team in this alternate Studio System Hollywood where robot labor has already arrived and left. It’s a mystery that keeps turning until the very last chapter. It’s absurd in a grounded way that is just charming to read. If you like sci-fi and myseries and just want something that feels like a new way of playing with familiar things this is a book for you! I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!
The best review I can give for “Made to Kill” is that I started out borrowing it from the library and I liked it enough that I ended up buying it just so I wouldn’t have to wait to renew it to finish reading.

It is by no means a perfect book, It has plenty of issues I could nit pick. If I was going to complain I could go on about how the the author introduces a lot of cool ideas that he never really does much with and how a lot of the Sci-Fi elements are largely cosmetic additions to a boilerplate detective story; but none of these were enough to keep me from enjoying the book. It’s simple, uncomplicated fun and I was never bored reading it. I’ll definitely be checking out the other books in the series.
This is a fun read, not meant to be taken seriously and from a few other reviews is seems that if you're a dilettante of Chandler you run the risk of being annoyed by Raymond Electromatic, the world’s last robot who has successfully transitioned from PI to hitman, because this novel continually tips its hat to that late, great author.

But I love Chandler and I wasn't annoyed in the slightest.

I liked Raymond's stoic view of his limitations - a 24 hour memory for starters - and place in this alternative LA. It's only slightly alternative, mind, because pretty much everything lines up with our history, apart from Raymond and his back office help, Ada.

So, this is a detective story in the hard-bitten gumshoe genre, with a reluctant/somewhat hero who stands apart as narrator of his own story and, importantly, the society in which he is embedded. Raymond is not as world weary as Chandler's iconic Marlowe, but he shares traits - wisecracking, tough and contemplative - and ultimately that measure of fairness for the underdog. Though Raymond's fairness does not preclude a little murder here and there.

Christopher keeps the plot boiling along nicely, peppers the story with interesting characters and makes the mystery cloudy enough that you won't guess it early in. I enjoyed it, and if you approach it as a fun little popcorn detective novel, you probably will too.