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Summary: read it!
Review: I've only read two Philip Dick novels -- this one and "Scanner Darkly" and both were thrilling and alarming experiences. I can't think of another author who gets into my system quite the same way. His books are set in an imagined future, but they draw from the psychological traumas of our era, which gives them great resonance. The reader comes away feeling that his/her own soul has been put through the same ringer as Deckard, Isidore, the androids, and the other characters.I don't want to add too much more to the interesting movie/book debate below, but let me just say that they are two radically different entities. Blade Runner actually reminds me more of another author -- William Gibson. Gibson, like Ridley Scott, is really into texture and image and has been accused of shortchanging plot and character. Philip Dick, at least in this book, seems relatively uninterested in high-resolution universe-building and much more concerned with exploring the characters' predicaments. A risk in both "Blade Runner" and Gibson is that the fun wears off along with the novelty of the images; in fact, watching "Blade Runner" just the other day, I found that a lot of the imagery had become somewhat familiar. maybe, ironically, because these works WERE so prophetic. Dick's novels, though, make a bid for timelessness and thirty years on "Do Androids Dream" didn't seem to have dated much, at least for me.
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Summary: Excellent style
Review: While the plot is quite interesting, the thing I enjoyed most about this novel was the way PKD was able to shape the world. Every detail is thought out in its entirety in his mind and transfered to paper. The Man in the High Castle does this even better and I strongly recommend it.
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Summary: Interesting, in a way, but poorly written
Review: I wont compare Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep with Blade Runner - previous reviewers have covered it all. I read the book with an open mind, trying to forget the movie, which I love. Taken on it's own merit, the book sorely disappointed. Written in the 60's, it's a great, imaginative peek into the future with hovercrafts, empathy machines and videophones. It's odd that as much vision as Dick has about technology, his women of the future remain secretaries and house fraus. Dick is not a classic novelist as some have called him. His dialog is stilted many of the scenes are dis-jointed. I dropped the book in horror and disgust at the following: (Rick Deckard has the android who already injured his partner in his hovercraft. The android is posing as another bounty hunter from Moscow, Rick figures it out) "... you're Polokov, the android; you're not from the Soviet police." Rick, with his toe, pressed the emergency button on the floor of his car. "Why won't my laser tube fire?" Kadalyi-Polokov said, switching on and off the miniaturized triggering and aiming device which he helf in the palm of his hand. "A sine wave," Rick said "That phases out laser emanation and spreads the beam into ordinary light." "Then I'll have to break your pencil neck."... uh huh. Shut up and kill each other? Dick has told us already that the androids lack certain human emotion, but, sheesh. "Why wont my laser tube fire?," is just plain bad dialog. There's better sci-fi out there, and it's not too hard to find. Throw you non-functional laser pen in any book store's sci-fi section and you are bound to hit one.
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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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