The Edge of Human (Blade Runner, Book 2)

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Summary: Good for what it is.
Review: movie-nerds' wet dream, what they'd all wished had been done with Highlander. 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: Disappointing.
Review: Mr. Jeter did a good job in presenting Ridley Scott's gloomy "feel" of the futuristic Los Angeles. However, he should have devoted more time to develop the story instead. He had a good story to tell. It just needed to be polished.

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Summary: The book kicked serious butt.
Review: The book starts off slow, they all do, but starts to get betterand better as you go along and builds for an explosive, and I do meanexplosive, ending.

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Summary: Well written, intelligent.....but slightly stale
Review: The problem with most sequels is that their predecesors come to natural ends. That is a problem in this sequel as well, but not as much as it could have been. Unfortunatly for readers, to understand this book you HAVE to have seen the Blade Runner: Director's Cut because this book contradicts the International Cut and Theatrical Release's "happy ending" completly. I'm not going to spoil the book, but it just does. It is very well written, even if it soes rely to much on the events of the film(there are about 15 references to "Wake up....time to die!"). It also features characters from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?(including JR Isadore, the character JF Sebastion was presumably based on). The greatest thing about this boook is the ability to keep the reader guessing(I never expected the event at the end of the book), which makes it a fulfilling read.

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Summary: good but a little off the wall
Review: The second Blade Runner book is a good read especially to fans of the movie like myself. The movie does have a few things that are confusing. Some characters are alive in this book who originally died in the movie.Jeter is a great author but he should have gone all the way with this one instead of trying to squeeze in unexplained resurrected characters.This is a must have for BR buffs

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Summary: Put "the machine" on this book- it's a phony!
Review: This book is a quagmire of mixed imagery the reader must slog through, only to wind up revisting a poor reprise of the classic showdown between the original Deckard and Roy Batty. The author barely got me to the anti-climatic ending. I was confused and irritated with constant changes in the plot that never addressed the real question on the minds of true Blade Runner fans- is Deckard a replicant? Fans of the Science Fiction and Cyber Punk genre should buy another book. Blade Runner 2 reads like a hoky TV series adapted from a great movie. The names are the same, but the soul is missing. Even for a replicant.

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Summary: Blade Runner 2: The Edge Of Human.
Review: This book is the sequel to the movie not a sequel to Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, for being what it is it's a very good continuation, there are a couple of things that bothered me but were background elements, not anything to do with the story itself, I would really like to know what other people think about this book, not many people have reviewed it even though it's selling. I don't suggest you to read the third book, unless you are a hardcore fan.

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Summary: Good sequel
Review: This is a worthy sequel story to the great 1984 movie. It is consistent with many of the original story elements, and in fact, it helped me to understand the parts in the movie I didn't understand at first. You get good action, and good plots twists with the introduction of Sarah Tyrell, Rachel's original and more truths come up about replicants and the Tyrell corporation. Blade Runner fans couldn't go wrong to get his book.

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Summary: You will have a hard time making it through this.
Review: This is one of the worst books I have ever read. When reading it you never even identify with the main character "Deckard". The plot is totally different than the movie. Did the author even see the movie? A high school kid could write better than jeter. I read another of his books once, it was better but it seems he can't think up a good plot.

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Summary: Looks like a script turned novel
Review: This novel reads like an unsold script for a Blade Runner movie turned into book form. It's just a rehash of the original...except not nearly as thought-provoking or entertaining. This was one of the tougher reads I've ever experienced. If this were the only book I had on a deserted island...I'd just eat it, because there's no way I could re-read it.