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One factor that may make it more palatable and not so cloying is that Karim is experiencing these feelings and situations for the first time, yet reacts in a way that not even an average fifteen-year-old in a coming-of-age story would, because he's not solely an innocent -- he's nearly a machine, and the novel is the story of his deepening resistance to that automatonlike sensibility.

Anis Shivani: The Best Post-9/11 Novel: Huffington Post Interviews Teddy Wayne, Author of "Kapitoil" 2010

One factor that may make it more palatable and not so cloying is that Karim is experiencing these feelings and situations for the first time, yet reacts in a way that not even an average fifteen-year-old in a coming-of-age story would, because he's not solely an innocent -- he's nearly a machine, and the novel is the story of his deepening resistance to that automatonlike sensibility.

Anis Shivani: The Best Post-9/11 Novel: Huffington Post Interviews Teddy Wayne, Author of "Kapitoil" 2010

Beyond displaying the kind of parenting that helped make his daughter the automatonlike workaholic depicted in the profile, Mr. Dyson misses the point.

From a New Media Prophetess,A Staid Old Media Product 1997

I kept them at the proper level, and when they reached the forward edge of the altar I cooperated with the summoning spell, increasing the force of each automatonlike step that I took.

Trumps of Doom Zelazny, Roger 1985

a calm, impassive, unemotional sternness about all that he said and did -- official, automatonlike -- that precluded the possibility of any jest or meaningless form.

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877