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Summary: an interesting view of our future
Review: It's an excellent and weird book of science-fiction, which shows us the strange but imaginable, certainly possible and not to far away tomorrow of our world and us. It's a mixture between a fantasy-world and cruel reality, with psychological and philosofical backrounds and a thoughtful development. What I liked most is how the author analizes religion and the need of humans to believe in something, eventhough it('s or) could be a fake, like Mercerism. I also liked how he ridiculizes "World War III" by saying that afterwards no one knew who started or ended it and why they did it, and by letting us know that things, that are trivial and useless to us now, could be very important and even esencial to us in this strange future.
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Summary: AN INTERESTING VISION OF OUR FUTURE
Review: Having read the book "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?" as an obligation at school, turns out to be a real pitty. I would have enjoyed reading it much more, if it would have been just for fun. Without any doubt, this is an excellent science-fiction story and an interesting vision of our future.Personally , I think the ending of the story is too poor, compared with the exciting introduction and the whole development of the novel. The author should have discribed with more detail the extinction of Rick's last three Androids, as they have of such importance and so difficult for him. Eventhough, I am sure that after having read the book almost everybody will ask himself, if it is going to be like this in the future. This is also, because the author shows a completely different philosophy and religion, specially reflected through the revelation of Mercerism.
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Summary: YOU DON'T LIKE SCIENCE FICTION ? READ IT ANYWAY !
Review: Even though I don`t like science fiction at all, I liked this book very much. Philipp K. Dick has written it so interesting and suspense-packed, that " Do Androids...? " is a book for EVERYONE. It is philosophical and it made me think about how far humans could go. At the beginning of the book every scene was very well described and I had a really good MOVIE in my head. But at the end, the author didn`t go so much in details any more and this made it difficult to understand some parts that had to do with Mercerism. This is the only thing, which I didn`t like on the book. Anyway, this difficulty has its advantage: everyone can make his own opinion about what Mercerism is.Isis Simpson
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Summary: This story is an exelent work of Dick
Review: Dick has done it! With this vook he really beat any other book I'v ever read. He puts you in a world, not as we know it today, but in a world full of paranoic rebel androids, fighting for their existence in a society which has no room for a human-like machine. Dick keeps you page by page with your adrenaline high, impossible to get bored EVER. You could also say that this book isn't just a simple story, I would also say that it is also a warning about what could come...
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Summary: My vision of "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?"
Review: While I was reading this book , I asked myself a lot of times, what if this is really the future that expect us? At the beginning I was a little astonished about the authors view about the future. I couldn't imagined a lot of things like the mood -organ, or a dying earth where life is rare and electric imitations so comun. I thought how terrible it would be, if animals get extinct and if people feel so lonely and depressed, that they conect to a machine, risking their lifes to get contact to others. Then I realized that we are not that far from this reality, because the danger of a third world war is still there. We also have been killing animals for years, putting them into danger of extinction. Depressions because of loneliness are comun in our world too and we also have a lot of doubts about God ,like the people in the book about Mercer have. I think it's a deep book about our societies most important problems and questions like what is religion and morality for us, or some fears like loneliness and destruction and also about humans qualities like the capacity to feel love and compasion for others. This book really made me think about some real important things, beside the author made my imagination fly leaving a lot of questions with not answer. Diane Saavedra
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Summary: Questions to think about
Review: In my opinion "Do androids dream of electric sheep" is not only a very interesting, well written and deep story but also a different vision of future and humanity. At the beginning of the book I had a lot of problems to countinue reading due to many questions I had about the story. We, for example, will never know who Mercer or the killers were, if the androids seriously couldn`t feel empathy or who gave Isidore the spider... I think the idea Dick had was to give us no answer to these questions, so that every reader has to build up a personal theory about what he wants to tell us. He shows us the importance of religion for people to continue hoping for a new life, eventhough there is nothing left to believe in. He shows us how thin the line between humans and androids could be (if they would exist), how fragile life is and other things. At the beginning of the story androids seem to the reader like mere machines, but as the story develops replicants appear more and more human. I personally couldn't say if they feel empathy or not, but I think that there has to be something like that in them. Otherwise they wouldn`t struggle so hard for their own freedom and they wouldn`t suffer like they did seeing their friends being killed. Why did humans build androids so similar to themselves they could nearly feel like "real" peolpe, if they didn't give them freedom? Wouldn`t it be the same as if a mother would exploit her own child? This was the question Dick let come up with "Do androids..." which worried me most. The only thing I didn't like of the book was the way the author finished the story. It seemed to me like if Dick was bored writing and wanted to finish as fast as possible...
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Summary: Comparing Do androids dream with Blade Runner
Review: If you happened to see the movie "Blade Runner" and now want to read the book, you may be in for a big surprise. First of all Blade Runner is not the cinema version of the book, it was just inspired by it. There are many differences between the book and the movie. For example there are two main caracters in the book, and there are many other elements in the book (i.e. religious things) that are left out in the movie . But on the other hand there are many things in the movie that you won't find in the book. I personally liked the whole audio-visual elements in the movie (the dark, dirty and dangerous atmosphere of an L.A. in the 20th century) and missed that in the book. I would really like to see Do androids dream as a movie with all the elements and characters of the book. If someone could combine this with the look and feel of the movie, and of course with Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard once again, i think it could be a great movie. My tip to everybody who saw the movie is: Get the book and compare for yourself. It's really worth it.
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Summary: androids are like sycophants
Review: Dick has outdone himself with this brilliant book on how androids are like sycophants, those blind adherers to societal norms in present-day society. He merely extrapolates from this premise of sycophantic, extrinsically-motivated actions and reveals how this is not a way of human living, or being.
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Summary: I love Dick!!!
Review: This is the first Philip K. Dick novel that I have ever read, but I'm sure I'll read another shortly. I loved it!
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Summary: Classic Sci-Fi at it's finest. An absolute must for PKD fans
Review: The book takes you to situations that are impausible at times but unceasingly imaginable in entirety - this, I found most enjoyable. Most of it is written in "first-person" narration which adds to the social and moral pressures that Dick is able to imposes on his readers with finesse. A pensive fiction that is perhaps relevent more today that ever in the past. It shatters doctrines on "Life" and as such the emerging philosophies favor consiousness. Can't let go without criticizing Blade Runner. As a child I was always was a BR nut but the movie hardly does justice to it's inspiration, the characters, backdrop or progression. I saw the movie again after reading the book and sure enough, it seemed like I was watching it for the first time.
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