Faithbreaker: Good
In the early afternoon I finished Faithbreaker, the final book in the Fallen Gods trilogy by Hannah Kaner. Of the three books in the series I liked this one the most; a lot of action.
Caught Stealing (2025)
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
In the evening Esme and I watched Caught Stealing. I liked the movie a lot and rate it an 8 out of 10.
The Proving Ground
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.
Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy’s digging ultimate delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too afraid to speak up. The case is fraught with danger because billions are at stake.
It is said that machines became smarter than humans on the day in 1997 that IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparov with a gambit called “the knight’s sacrifice.” Haller will take a similar gambit in court to defeat the mega forces of the AI industry lined up against him and his clients.
In the evening I started in The Proving Ground, a Lincoln Lawyer novel by Michael Connelly.
Roofman (2025)
In the evening Esme and I watched Roofman. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Frankenstein (2025)
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
In the evening Esme and I watched Frankenstein. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.