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Summary: Cyber-Punk @ its best
Review: Although there are many great writers in the area of so called "cyber-punk", Philip K.Dick is the undisputed king. "do androids.." is a slanted look at everyday life, it deals with predudice, loss and the ultimate right (that every one gives up) of free thinkiing. If you buy a book this century, Buy this one !!(or "otherland" By Tad williams:-) .....Remember Free thinkers are dangerous
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Excellent book that has many surprises. This book, aside from being a fun read, is much like good literature. Did you notice how he constructed the book to make the reader empathetic? By fleshing out J.R. Isidore didn't everyone feel empathy when people called him 'chickenhead' to his face? Same with the spider episode. It seemed like there are many levels to this book about relations between men and women, man and animals, man and his creations, and even man and himself (the mood organ).As I read this book for the first time, I understood how the android characters, if they read the same book, wouldn't understand what makes the story interesting. Kind of self-referential.
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Summary: Spiffy Ingenious Ideas That Need More Development
Review: This book is very entertaining and fun. The ideas presented are fascinating and intriguing, but--alas--do not get the attention they deserve. If the ideas had been fully fleshed out, I would have given this book 5 stars. But as it stands, it reminds me too much of Lem, who has the same problem: that of inventing brilliant premises and then not carrying them out far enough to give his novels a sense of completion.
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Summary: A few words about this book
Review: The science fiction book "Do androids dream of electric sheep?", written by Philip K. Dick, has not been without any reasons the inspiration for the cult-movie "Blade Runner", by Ridley Scott and starred by the actor Harrison Ford. It's a book about how life will be in future. When this book was first published in 1968 it caught all attentions: After the end of World War Terminus the world is completly polluted and spilled over with radioactivity. A lot of animals are extinct and replaced by fake ones. The humans have reached Mars and their tecnological advance is that big, that they have even created androids (human-robots) which almost don't show any differences towards the human beeings. So Rick Deckard's job is to identify those advanced nexus-6 brains and retire them, because they have no feelings and want to become independent from the humans... . But this book also shows a lot of other deep ideas which let us make a really good picture of how the society will be, and talks about the relationship between humans and androids, about religion ... . I can really recomend this book to everybody who knows enough English (I find it was, sometimes, very difficult to understand all the details).
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Summary: Pleasant Surprise
Review: I was looking for a "fun read" on vacation and, being a fan of Blade Runner, thought I'd pick this up. If you're looking for fidelity to the movie, never mind. On the other hand, this turns out to be much more interesting and cerebral than the movie attempted to be. I'd call it a piece of philosophical sci-fi, posing questions that -- sooner or later -- we'll have to confront.
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Summary: You like the book, movie? The game will be your "everything"
Review: One of the best books I've ever read! Though it's the first of PKD! I think the game "Blade Runner" inspired my to read the book, and the book inspired me to see the movie! Strange order, maybe. Anyway! I can recommend all three of them. Nevertheless I think the book is superior because it's much more deeper. Questioning our future, humanity and believe in god. An absolute must for Sci-Fi Fans. One little advise! Play the game, a really extraordinary adventure! Not one end, but over 20 different endings are waiting for you!!!
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Summary: ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ
Review: The book "Do androids..." written by Philipp K. Dick is a very special one. It is fabulous how he imagines the society of the future, and how important religion, in this case "Mercerism", will ever be. When I first saw the title I didn`t like it very much, because it didn`t sound like a good book. But when I began to read, it wrarped me from the first page to the last, because of its originality. It impressed me how a person could imagine a world so far into the future and also so real, because this could really happen in a few decades. I also liked the way the book was written. It is not boring and you get very familiar with the characters, since he also describes them very well. I recommend it to people that like good science-fiction. For me it is one of the most original books I have ever read. MACARENA SANHUEZA
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Summary: interesting, a bit boring
Review: First of all I have to say, that I don't exactly know, what to think about this book. On one side I liked it; it was nice to read because the author wrote in an interesting way. There were lots of stories about many characters, which mixed after a while and joined into one big story. I also liked, how P.Dick describes, how humans are discriminating androids, critizising the human race and showing, how different classes treat, (and think about) each other. On the other side I didn't like it; often I was confused, and didn't exactly know about what he was talking. Maybe it just happened to me, due to my lack of English knowledge... What I also didn't like is, that I couldn't identify with any character and that I couldn't get involved with the story. But read it yourself... Matthias Fielsch
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Summary: A book to recomment
Review: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Is that kind of book every reader is looking for. The author knew exactly what and how to write, to make this book interesting, exciting and that way keep the attention of the reader. As I started to read the book, I was not sure if I was going to understand it, because the language was not easy to understand. But after I had read a few chapters, this did not matter; I was fascinated by the story and did not longer pay attention on words I didn`t understand. I could not drop the book, I wanted to know what was going to happen next. I think that Philip K. Dick is brilliant since he created a science fiction story like this. try to imagine the World destroyed by mankind, almost no animal`s left and so advanced technology, that machines are trying to take control over human life. P. K. Dick makes you live in his world with his rules, not every writer is able to do this. But there are some things I didn`t understand, small details which weren`t made clear, for example who "the killers" were. Besides of that it is a wonderful book.
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Summary: our earth in the twenty -first century
Review: The story told by Dick could be our world in the twenty-first century ? Maybe we will not be able to stop a world war and the consequences would be eloquently fatal for the human race, no matter if it happens to be what Dick says or if something else happens. Well there are also people who think that human race has to be extinct to save the creation of God ,we are destroying every day more. There are also many interesting ideas to think about: What makes humans to create a species like themself? I think that the human is playing with the power of creation who in the beginnig was only given to God.And this has consecuences we apreciate in the book. Also the mod organ is somethink i found interesting , because the people who lives in that World doesnt seem to have the capacity we got nowadays. Being happy becasue you are connected to a machine ? Is that the happines most people searches for in our days. I dont think so. What about you think about it!
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