The Complete Roderick

I've read the first novel, so my rating is just based on that one. Roderick had some fun, interesting views. It's essentially a Pinocchio story about a little robot that wants to be a real boy. I did have one big, glaring issue.

In the novel, Roderick is a small, three foot tall box. Something like WALL*E. Yet all through the book, people never acknowledge that he is a robot, confusing him with a little boy. I'm not sure if this was all meant to be silliness on the part of the author, or satire, but I just saw it as stretching believability too far. It was a constant eye rolling piece in an otherwise fun novel.