My second is that it feels like it goes a bit far with how divorced humanity has become from its past. My first minor criticism of the narrative is that the Black Hole Diver story isn’t that great. This eventually culminates in Ibis telling the non-fictional story about how mankind has reached its current state. Namely that they’re about artificial intelligence and a positive attitude towards it. The main narrative features Ibis telling stories to our protagonist while the stories she tells are feature a few thematic similarities. The story is based around bibliotherapy and is reminiscent of 1001 Nights in that regard. But can he overcome his deep-rooted mistrust of machines and actually listen? Our heroine introduces herself as Ibis and she entertains the story teller during his convalescence by telling him some stories. She calls for help and he wakes up in hospital, a prisoner of the robots. She says she just wants to talk, but he doesn’t believe her and proves no match for her and injures himself trying to bust her systems. We open with a wandering storyteller being confronted by an android. In any case, it’s been quite a while since my last book review. Although I’ll be reading from the 2010 English version since, in spite of being a massive weeb, I don’t speak Japanese. The Stories of Ibis is a novel from 2006 written by Yamamoto Hiroshi.
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