Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Abridged

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Summary: Very Good Story and Developemment, but A Poor Ending!
Review: This book is maybe one of the best Philip K. Dick's book. The story is very elaborate and the way the author keeps you in the mood of the story is extrordinary and very bright for that kind of book. This is a classic in sci-fi litterature. The introduction is very good and he related all the evenements is very genius and wath can we say about the developemment it's so good and interesting the way he explains the retirement of the first three androids, but wath a poor ending he goes to fast it's like if his life was in danger if he continued to explains a little bit. Well the book is excellent after all and I recommended it to people that like's good sci-fi and that are good readers because he is by some parts a little difficult.

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Summary: A Superior Novel
Review: I was skeptical when I first picked up this novel. I wasn't really into science fiction at the time. Yet, this book truly made me a believer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is truly a superior novel in every aspect. The story gives a peculiar view of the issue of the replicants through the eyes of a replicant-killer and a "special" human in their society... Truly an amazing book.

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Summary: It made me a PKD fan
Review: Nothing of significance in this book really correlates with Bladerunner (in fact, Ridley Scott's movie has an opposite depiction of Earth). Plenty of ruminations on the human condition, and a really important work of science fiction. Not quite as powerful as Martian time-slip, but powerful nonetheless. This book made me seek as many PKD titles as I could find.

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Summary: Apples & Oranges
Review: Comparing "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" to "Blade Runner" is like comparing "Heart of Darkness" to "Apocalypse Now." To be fully appreciated, each must be examined independently of its inspiration.

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Summary: This book is fantastic.
Review: I consider "Do Androids Dream..." to be one of the two best books that I have ever read, the other being Johnny Got His Gun. It is totally incredible, and I think that the movie Blade Runner is a great movie. PKD is one of the most visonary wtiters ever.

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Summary: The book is a different story altogether
Review: Like so many, I've seen the movie BLADE RUNNER (the original and Director's Cut), and read the book which it is based on. I loved both. The movie is beautiful and meaningful, but it's meaning is different than the book. The movie's question is "Should Deckard be killing the Replicants?" and it talks about why or why not. The question in the book is "Is Deckard a Replicant?" and by the end of the book, we still have no idea. Both are book and movie are great, but you have to take them as seperate pieces of art. I highly reccomend both.

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Summary: wonderful...
Review: This is one of the most gripping novels I've ever read. I read the first few pages on a school night, and the next day finished it in school, resolutely ignoring the classes I was meant to be paying attention to. Incredibly gripping. You've probably already seen Blade Runner, but if you haven't, I'd read Androids and steer clear of the film. It's an okay movie in and of itself, but you'll realize that it's rather a shallow parody of the masterful book upon which it was based. Just read it, why dontcha!?!?

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Summary: An excellent and entartaining novel
Review: This is definately one of my very favorite sci-fi novles of all time. I must have read it 3 times withing the first month of receiving it as a Christmas Gift. I think that it blow Blade Runner out of the water.

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Summary: Blade Runner is a joke compared to this.
Review: I could never understand why Ridley Scott thought if he removed the theological aspects, the other main character (Isadore), the concept of empathy and the artificial animals and replaced them with shallower characters, long boring pans of a crowded (huh?) world, slow-motion violence and a cheese-ball narration (ei. "my name is Rick Deckard, I'm a killer" and that's it) he could improve upon the story. The movie took some of the plot and none of the theme. The only question it left me asking is "why the hell did they give this guy such a big budget to make this snorefest?" Dick was rightfully purturbed when he read the first draft of the script and said it was a load of "crap". Scott might as well have changed the names and simply said "inspired by the works of Phillip K. Dick" or some such thing. If you haven't guessed yet, I don't like the movie. Having read the book first, and still leaving a lot of room for changes, I was still disappointed at every turn. The book, in typical PKD style forces us to question our fragile reality. Can we draw lines on where life starts. Being nothing but a mass of super encoded information ourselves what stops a computer that can hold just as much info from being alive and does religion spring from the well of life or is it a side effect of it? If our existance is tattered and dismal enough can we not chug on without empathy for our fellow man, do we need an instrument that can give it to us or else fall into oblivion? And if this is the case and we kill what we perceive as inhuman yet we define humanity as empathy than should we not erase our selves? Or are we doing so as we speak? The questions can go on and on. The book (as all later PKD works) will change your precepts if your not to brainwashed or shallow to let it. If you think the book needed more action then stick with Arnie movies. (Speaking of which, Arnold was in an even more failed attempt to bring PKD to the big screen in Total Recall, a stupid, n! eedlessly violent action flick that was based on a short story. It took a long time for American action-movies to take the cue from John Woo and his contemperaries who proved cinematic violence holds a strange and twisted beauty, too late I guess for Ridley Scott)

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Summary: A slight change in style.
Review: Philip Dick (THE science fiction writer of the 60's and 70's) has created a story which challenges us with examining our perceptions of reality and the definitions of our morality. Blade Runner glazed over my favorite element of the story (Isidore) and changed the point of it. Though we are apparently supposed to believe Dick has embodied himself in the main character Deckard (Rick/Dick-get it?) I believe he has divided aspects of personality between two contrasting characters, Deckard and Isidore. Deckard is forced to violate himself in order to survive; Isidore is a reject who adheres to social rules of morality more closely than do those who impose those rules on others. Blade Runner was an 80's action movie with a moral subplot; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a moral story with a cop-action backdrop. Though Dick's cynical humor appears less than in other novels (Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; Flow my Tears the Policeman Said) it is still a very good novel. All Dickheads should read it. I know it turned me into one.