Overcome with a full range of emotions, and facing an imminent reset, Jared heads west, determined to forge real connections. He yearns to find his mother, the programmer who created him. He dreams of writing a screenplay that will change the world. Along the way, he might even fall in love. But a bot with feelings is a dangerous proposition, and Jared’s new life could come to an end before it truly begins. One day at a screening of a classic movie, Jared notices a strange sensation around his eyes. Bots are not permitted to have feelings, but as the theater lights come on, Jared discovers he is crying. One of the most original, funny, and heartwarming stories I’ve read in years. This novel has it all—humor, insight, social commentary, romance, Hollywood, the end of society as we know it, old movies, and classic cars. Jared may be a bot, but he feels emotions more acutely than most humans.... Set My Heart to Five will set your heart well past that. It certainly did mine." I loved the metaphors in the book, too. Angry people almost burned down Detroit and Panda refusing to reproduce are two of my favorites. Seriously, the author has an unique sense of humor. Both whimsical and lyrical, Set My Heart to Five is an astounding examination of the human condition and all the things that make it up: curiosity, duty, art, dreams, and—of course—love. It is, much like its hero Jared, made up of both laughter and tears, and one of the most unique books ever crafted."

One day at a screening of a classic movie, Jared feels a strange sensation around his eyes. Everyone knows that bots can’t feel emotions, but as the theater lights come on, Jared is almost certain he’s crying. Confused, he decides to watch more old movies to figure out what’s happening. The process leads to an emotional awakening that upends his existence. Jared, it turns out, can feel. Unlike anything you have ever read before, Set My Heart to Five is a love letter to outsiders everywhere. Plus it comes uniquely guaranteed to make its readers weep a minimum of 29mls of tears.*I have written two other books. ‘Set My Heart To Five’ came out in 2020. The Washington Post review said that I might be ‘Vonnegut’s first true protege’. You’d better believe I have been dining out on that ever since, and will be for the rest of my days. Jared, insan görüntüsüne sahip, robot bir diş hekimi. Bu alanda programlandığından da mesleğinde en iyisi. Normalde duyguları olmayan bir robot (onu insanlardan ayıran tek şey de bu) ama bir film izlediğinde ağladığını fark ediyor. Bundan sonraysa robot Jared, duygularını anlamaya çalışıyor. Onu yaratan programcıyı (annesini) bulmayı ve dünyayı değiştirecek bir senaryo yazmayı hayal ediyor. Bu sırada âşık bile oluyor. 😍 I loved this original, delightful, poignant, and heartwarming book. It was written with wit, wisdom and insight into the human condition despite its shortcomings and the perception of what it means to be human. A delightfully entertaining, deceptively poignant debut novel about a humanlike bot named Jared, whose emotional awakening leads him on an unforgettable quest for connection, belonging and possibly even true love

A sublime delve into what it means to be human. Jared's journey of self-discovery (a bot discovering he has developed human emotions and feelings) is one I didn't want to end. It made me want to be a more humane human. I laughed out loud and cried along with every step he took. Jared's 'awakening’ is so precious and perfectly written. His use of the Feelings Wheel makes us question what we are actually feeling at any given time. His descriptions of the nuances of human politeness are hilarious;This book was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a book in the vein of All Systems Red and the accompanying books, because that is a book about a bot who develops...unwarranted feelings/empathy/care, and this seemed like a similarly set up premise and therefore something I would like. Stephenson chats about the likelihood of a soon-coming world where practically every conceivable job will be occupied by robots (with the exception of anything that requires empathy.)

Arka kapak yazısını okuduğumda beni çok heyecanlandıran Kalbimi Beşe Kur, çok farklı, alışılmışın dışında bir konuya sahip. Bir kere ana karakter bir robot. Nasıl klişe bir kurgu olabilir ki zaten?But using Dr Gludenstein's Feelings Wheel, Jared begins to identify more and more of the things he is not supposed to have. Where will it end up? Has he been around humans too long? Is he a glitch in the Matrix or the future of robotics? Unlike anything you have ever read before, Set My Heart to Five is a love letter to outsiders everywhere. In some ways this reminded me of Vonnegut — the speculative and humorous extrapolation of today’s social mores — but with a little more depth in terms of human (or bot) experience and how we treat others. As fun additions, there are some great descriptions of classic movies (without titles) that are fun to see through Jared’s eyes (and try to make the identification), some fun screen-writing tips, and all the details of a futuristic road trip adventure. Discussing the very real topic of AI and the fear that bots may well one day 'take over the world' and possibly mimic us sentient beings so realistically that we cannot tell the difference between real and artificial... This book is one I will be recommending time and time again. I will be using it as a' class reader' with my Year 6 children this term. I can't wait to see what Simon Stephenson writes next.

There are also many references to rules of screenwriting. And I for a weird reason, actually know quite a bit about those. (If you never read a book about screenwriting, you won't get the "little girl survives" reference.) The story takes place in 2053 and is narrated by a bot, Jared. We don't know the entire fact about world conditions. We are told that New Zealand and perhaps North Korea were obliterated, some cities are permanently aflame, all planes in the sky crashed on a single day, and Elon Musk incinerated the moon by mistake. Ha! Jared works as a dentist in small-town Michigan. His life is totally normal, except for one thing. He is a bot engineered with human DNA to look and act like a real person. Humans have declared the jobs which robots can and cannot do-surprsingly to Jared, because humans are inexplicable, they prefer a robot to human dentist whereas a doctor is ont he list of jobs a human can do.

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Jared the bot develops complicated feelings after seeing a bunch of "old movies". These are classics that any movie love would have watched. He doesn't reference them by the titles, but by plots. And he describes them in a hilarious way. Funny as any book I can remember reading, but it's also so much more than that: a manifesto for those of us who've always felt a little different, and a meditation on the profound connections that make us human.... [Y]ou'll fall in love with Jared from his first, enthusiastic "Hi!" and that you'll never want to let him go." But it was not, which I should have realized because books are not just derivatives of other books. Authors generally like to write new works. And so begins a bittersweet deconstruction of the human condition, told through the eyes of a robot.