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Summary: Good for what it is
Review: A movie-nerds' ... dream, what they'd all wished had been done with Highlander. A continuation of the movie's story in the style of Dick's book, with multiple scenes which are reporductions or reflections from the original (another Deckard/Batty fight in the rain on decaying city infrastructure). Pretty good for the Geekbook mindcandy category.
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Summary: Blade Runner 2: Outshined by the original
Review: Being a huge fan of the movie (director's cut version) I was extremely eager to see what Jeter had done with it. Jeter's style is complicated and depressing; which is probably what he intended. The story line swerves all over the place like a snake being held by the neck and Jeter does an above average job for a sequel. Some cronic fans of the movie will be let down, however, since the original is much better due to a less complicated but deeper storyline. Blade runner is a ten out of ten classic, but Blade Runner 2 is only above average. It was a bit of a dissapointment for me. It amuses me that the sixth replicant was actually just a mixup during the making of the movie and if they had done it correctly then this book would have been a completely different story. One thing that bugged me was some of the climaxes. Most of them were over the top; for instance when Deckard escapes from the police station and the very last climax. But generally speaking, it was still a good book that was intruiging reading. I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone and definetely not to people who havent seen the movie or read the book 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?'
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Summary: It's a good book, but doesn't really follow the Original.
Review: Besides from a good book. This book doesn't really follow the original Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which was probably needed to explain the film. But overall if someone seen the movie, this would explain the movie part, but never the book by Dick.
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Summary: Thank god someone wrote a sequal
Review: I am so happy that somebody actually wrote a sequal to one of the greatest SF films ever made (considering that there will be no movie sequal...). And this book does justice to the blade runner world by adding more for us to follow with Rick Deckard and his life. Mr. Jeter did a fine job with the legacy that PK Dick left and I'd just like to say how glad I am that the freaky-near-future, apocolyptic, world-in-chaos science-fiction genre lives on...especially with a detective like Rick Deckard.
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Summary: Better than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Review: I have also reviewed do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and I have to say this is better. It is based more on Blade Runner than the original book (which was much different from the movie which was horrible). It did not do what the inside of the cover promises (clearing up discrepancies between the movie and book) but was awesome. It has plot twist left and write, great action (especially at the end), a character from the original book, well written with a lot of surprises and the best book I have ever read (and that is saying A LOT)!!!
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Summary: I would give this book less than 1 star if I could
Review: I tend to be open about all forms of literature and most writers, even if there books are simple or immature you usually can get some interesting insights or at least superficial visceral entertainment from most stories. Sadly this writer gave me the first experience with the word HACK that I have ever truly encountered. Never before have I slammed face first into a pile of words that would actually be better described as excrement.
I did not find anything wrong with P.K. Dick's book, loved Ridley Scott's interpretation of the film, Blade Runner. But this was so bad I wondered if it was originally written on toilet paper, lost in the woods, and then found by some Hollywood type who hoped to sell it as a "property" to a B-Movie studio.
I have my own interpretation of the nuances in the original novel and the movie, as most do, but this clown seems to not understand any of the basic story premises as well as having the blackest mental cesspool for a view of the world I have seen since Mein Kampf. Early in the book we find that the basic premise is that, we (All humans) want our slaves to be as human as possible so we can "enjoy" there suffering. If your basic outlook of humanity is this low, I don't understand how he had time to write this book. I would expect Jeter would be in a cave somewhere and living off roots or shackled to a wall with a 200lbs Dom leaving red marks across his ass.
I kept reading this book thinking that all the stupid mistakes and idiotic premises thrown like feces from a monkey cage, would be exposed in the end, and we would return to somewhere near the original Dick/Scott galaxy. He has no additional insight in to any of the caricatures he reused from better writers, and I suspects, he needs to spend more time in the real world getting to know humans that are not drawn on his hand, to gain some wisdom about how real people operate and why.
Do not give this guy even the 1% royalty by purchasing this book anywhere(Sorry Amazon), except to support your local used book store to clear shelf space for ANYTHING else.
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Summary: Decent sci-fi, but not a good BR sequel
Review: I was able to finish this book, but I wish I hadn't. If you love the film, be forewarned: you will never look at it the same way after reading this book. There are too many inconsistencies, particulalry with characters who died in the film, but have been resurrected for this story. I thought the Roy Batty clone template was interesting, but it seems this and other plot points were done simply to have access to popular and recognizable characters from the film. It might have been more affective to just have all new characters. As it is, this sequel just doesn't feel right, and as the successor to a film that evokes such strong emotional appeal from its fans, feeling is important.Oh, and Pris not a replicant? Yeaaah, right! Removing her hand from boiling water unscathed, performing super-human acrobatic stunts while beating the crap out of Deckard, and taking three point blank gunshots (two in the Dir. Cut) before going down?? I guess her nails were black because she painted them, not because she was expiring like Roy. ;) "Pris hasn't got long to live, I can't accept that." I can't accept that she was a human all along. Jeter was supposedly an understudy of Dick, but he should have left his mentor's masterpiece alone, not to mention Ridley Scott's beautiful interpretation (which this sequel is actually based on). I think this is a decent sci-fi book, but a horrible BR sequel. Read Dick's original "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and stick with the classic film.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I'm sorry, but this sequel to the movie (not Philip K. Dicks' classic novel) misses the mark by a large margin. The ludicrous way in which two characters who quite obviously died previously (J. F. Sebastian and Pris) are suddenly brought back to life in this installment is laughable. The characterisations of Dave Holden and Deckard are as wooden as Keanu Reeves and the whole thing moves along as though its feet are stuck in concrete. There are some nice ideas at work here (Holdens rescue for example) but overall it just seems like a tired excuse for cashing in on the Blade Runner phenomenon. Avoid.
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Summary: Great sequel for a great movie
Review: If you liked the movie you should like this book. It's a little slow at the beginning but if you can make it through that, you'll love this book. It does a great job at bringing back places and people from the movie and adds some more. A lot of characters you thought were gone are back. It brings back life to the Blade Runner universe.
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Summary: Not too bad for a sequel to the movie
Review: In seeking to emulate the film, while borrowing from Dick's novel whenever convenient, Jeter has done well in a venture that could be much worse than it is. His action sequences are hacked together, not to mention bland, as is his characterization of Deckard, who I felt played second banana to another character from the film who figures into the plot here. Occasionally, however, Jeter supplies his characters with musings about the distinction between human and replicant (or lack thereof) and we get just a taste of what it was like the first time we actually GOT Blade Runner (which probably wasn't the first time we saw it). I applaud most Jeter's bold denouement, which isn't afraid to shake things up and actually move the story forward. It came close to sending chills down my spine, as the ending of the film's director's cut. I also appreciate its consideration of Rachael's characterization in Dick's original novel, and how the two seemingly polar opposite personalities gel.
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