David Lodge

The growing relationship between two very different individuals--Ralph Messenger, the director of the Holt Belling Center for Cognitive Science and expert on artificial intelligence, and Helen Reed, a recently widowed novelist--is chronicled in the alternating voices of the two characters. By the author of Therapy. Reprint.

A Novel

Thinks--

Clare B

I started reading this on a whim, knowing absolutely nothing about the book. It was a quick read and very entertaining. It would be interesting to read back-to-back (or sid-by-side) with Galatea 2.2. Both about fiction writers who are visiting professors and become interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. Who knew this was a genre?

Ioana Kardos

When philandering cognitive scientist Ralph Messenger meets recently bereaved novelist Helen Reed sparks fly on the campus at the University of Gloucester. Ralph knows he wants Helen; Helen finds him attractive but rejects his advances on principle. Each thinks the other is wrong – about this, and much else. In chronicling their passionate and argumentative relationship, David Lodge has written a dazzling comic exploration of love and deception, the enigmas of consciousness and the intricacies of the human heart.

Thinks-- A Novel

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