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

I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. I smiled all the time I was reading about Al and really enjoyed how his character was shown and the interactions with Hope & Eric. Once the story became more action-based I wasn't quite so impressed, I thought these parts were drawn out and I sped-read pages to get past them without missing any detail. The ending was a surprise and was great, don't want to give anything away but wondering whether this opens up to a series?

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.

A thoroughly convincing story and a damn good read. Scott Meyer has written an extremely good book about a human developed AI programme, built based on how we think a child's brain develops. The book mainly features two researchers who spend a lot of time teaching the child brain AI and their unempathetic boss who has her own child. Things spiral out of control when the child AI gets access to the internet and learns stuff that his "parents" don't want him to. Many parallells for the parents amongst us and an amusing story with a believable ending. I could see another book to follow up.

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+