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Summary: Excellent, Classic Phillip K. Dick
Review: If you read this book (Blade Runner) looking for the movie, you're out of luck. But, if you want to trade up, get and read the book. Phillip K. Dick was the best there was. His books make you read, comprehend, and think. The original title "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" really sums up the whole book. He had the ability to take a little person and an insignificant event and turn them into high drama. Properly read, his words will change you forever. Unfortunately, Mr. Dick is no longer with us and his books are almost impossible to find. I suggest you check your used bookstores and try to find additional titles. Here are some of my favorites: "Vulcan's Hammer", "Solar Lottery", "The Man in The High Castle". If you have read this far and find a copy of "Vulcan's Hammer" in excellent condition, I would be interested in obtaining it. My copy is a little worn.
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Summary: An exception to the rule that books are better than movies
Review: To be fair, I found only a glimmer of similarity between the two pieces. Both pit a number of human-engineered automatons against a single cop, but after that setup the two pieces couldn't be more dissimilar. Dick's work is laborious, boring, the action stagnant with philosophy. There are points when Dick could delve (interestingly) into the hero's psyche and render the author's philosophical and moral arguments more convincingly with action; instead, the writing is too concerned with the sort of adolescent, masturbatory concerns that have tainted science fiction in the past. If you want a brainy, philosophically overwrought read, pick this up. If you want a story that moves -- albeit not without its flaws -- rent the director's cut.
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Summary: The book is 100 times better than the movie !!!
Review: Somehow I didn't like the movie anymore after I've read this book. There just didn't happen anything in the movie. The best scifi book in the whole world!
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Summary: Excellent book, excellent movie...
Review: Right, first off, don't read the book expecting a novelization of the movie - it's not. It is, on the other hand, a superb book, raising interesting moral implications and having a decent story with it. Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie (and also Westwood's game - if you even liked the movie get the game. If you have some money buy the book, you won't regret it.
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Summary: Loved the book, slept through the movie
Review: Many people will no doubt read this book because of name recognition, thinking it will be a novelization of a 1980'sci-fi action movie. I read the book and the book and watched the movie because of it, rather than reading the book because of the movie. The movie disappointed me. Dick has here told a moving story of morality and what it means to be human. Ridley Scott has transformed Dick's masterpiece into a mediocre popcorn movie with minor moral caveats to keep readers of the book watching. If you want semi-brainless action, see the Blade Runner, or Robocop, Terminator, etc. If you want to be stunned by excellent authorship and well-told philosophical truths, read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. But find a different publisher, so as not to encourage the movie-merchandising complex.
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Summary: A readable problematization of the issue of personhood.
Review: Dick's book, far more so than the movie you have probably seen, problematizes the issue of personhood, as opposed to humanity. In the culture of the year 2021, the criterion for personhood is the ability to feel empathy, both for humans and for nonhuman animals. The culture has even built a religion, Mercerism, centered on empathy. Androids, who cannot participate in Mercerism, are used as slaves by humans who have colonized outlying planets. The murder and torture of animals is a crime, but the murder and enslavement of androids is required, despite the fact that androids are more intelligent than humans. This is a readable problematization of issues of personhood which can be used to introduce the philosophically naive reader to questions about what it is to be a person:
-- Does intelligence matter?
-- Can a robot ever meet the criteria, or is there a soul or ghost in the human machine which can never be in the humanmade machine?
-- To what extent does slavery and cruel treatment construct beings as non-persons?
-- Does species matter?
Philosopher and non-philosopher alike can enjoy Dick's inventiveness (a mood organ for changing your moods, a response test for checking your empathy level, invented words like "vidscreen" . . .) and fluid writing style. The novel has action, but those looking for the action and suspense of the film may be disappointed. The book opts instead for a slower and more contemplative exploration of issues.
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Summary: The Best book i've ever read. . .
Review: Well this book documents the trials of a Bounty Hunters troubles while hunting down renegade Androids. This book asks the question "whos right to take a life?" and "Who am I actually?" with an unusal plot, and a surpiseing way about it this book faithfull contributes to the Blade Runner universe, and it also started it.
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Summary: exceelent into to PK Dick works...
Review: keep in mind that Scanners and Total Recall are also Dick books' movies. In the future of PK Dick's 1950s and 1960s, the future was the 1980s or 1990s......NOW....Wait For Next Year themes mixed with techno/industrial societies that aren't that far away from ours today.
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Summary: 7
Review: I think Dick is an excellent writer. This book is only GOOD, in my opinion. Most of his books I rate EXCELLENT or SUBLIME, so GOOD is below average for a PKD book. Maarten Daams
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Summary: Not the novelization of the movie.
Review: Written almost 20 years before the movie came out, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep was a staple of fringe Science Fiction. Definately born of the psycodelic 60s, Blade Runner is quite a representative of the writing produced in that era. Do not expect the movie to match the book or vice versa.
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