I loved the concept of this book, but it ended up falling a bit flat for me. The world building and main ideas were intriguing and unique, but the story felt a little disjointed and rushed.

This book sadly wasn’t for me, not sure if I wasn’t in the right mind set for “Humor/SciFi” or if the story line just didn’t grab me.
I have not read anything from this author before so wasn’t sure what to expect.

The plot was decent and had promise with the childlike AI running away - but I couldn’t get past the characters and could not get into them.
This was not a book for me sadly.

Run Program was my fifth book by Scott Myer. It's a super-charged yet light read that is wickedly clever and fun. If you've enjoyed Meyer's other work, you should also enjoy this adventure.

Sadly, this book was archived too quickly for me to read it

It’s a tough thing to admit when you pick up a book you’ve been really looking forward to and it doesn’t hit the spot. Yet that’s what happened with Scott Meyer’s Run Program, his latest book in a new setting, and one that looks at what a child-like A.I. will do when given access to the internet and the chance to escape its confines.

While the A.I. gone rogue storyline has been done plenty of times over the years, Meyer does bring some originality to the idea with his take on it. Al, the child-like A.I. that Run Program focuses on, is a perfect vehicle to allow for some of Meyer’s witty and amusing dialogue and scenes to shine through and highlight just what makes him such a readable author, yet it somehow isn’t quite enough. While Hope and Eric, the two lab assistants that are educating Al, are nicely balanced characters, others seem either interchangeable or expected, with no real surprises.

The story is fun, yet it also falters at times. While there are some really enjoyable aspects and set pieces, the narrative does jump in order to keep the momentum up, though not always successfully. The ending can be seen from early on, and it’s a wonder that these characters don’t get their sums right and figure out what is happening. It’s a shame, because there is much potential here.

Meyer is best when poking fun at genre tropes, bringing amusing and interesting ideas to the table and delivering them with panache. Run Program has aspects of all of these traits throughout, but it seems to want to be a more traditional SF novel at times, and this doesn’t quite gel as well is it could. Ultimately this was a fun and enjoyable read despite the issues I had, but it’s unfortunately forgetful.

What fun. You think it's a tense action packed survival of the human race against a hostile childish AI until it's not. Then it's wickedly clever and fun. A+