Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 
so-soA better title would be Do Androids Mind if I Bail on this Book?
I didn‘t. But now that I know how it ends, I think I would. I‘m sure there‘s a better critical analysis out there, but I had to go to the Internet to figure out what the heck I‘d just read.
pickCan‘t believe I hadn‘t read this ever- certainly extended moments of brilliance and far more profound than I had expected. Be warned this is not like either movie- but more of a third very good option. The PKD fan within is sated.
so-soDick takes an interesting approach, then, to dystopian science fiction, writing Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? more in the style of detective noir fiction. Deckhard is the hard-boiled world-weary investigator, tempted by selfish motives (sex, owning his own ostrich) but keeping his cool in life-threatening situations. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-philip-...
#Dream #NewYearNewBooks @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks When I was 18 I lived somewhere totally out of the way and my only access to books was the wall of floor to ceiling shelves of vintage 70s sci-fi paperbacks one of my housemates had, so I started reading that genre for the first time. This book was one of my first forays into his library because it was a title I recognized. I remember he had both this copy and the Blade Runner cover.
pickSo far my favorite science fiction book! Any recommendations for a good sci-fi book??
Over here chuckling because for some reason, Philip K Dick thought in 2021 we would have flying cars and androids that look so much like humans you can't discern between the two, but we're still using a freaking PHONE BOOTH to make calls outside of home or work. 🤣
#sciencefiction #classics #ThatDidntAgeWell
pickWhat if androids were made so well, you didn‘t even know they were an android? What if simply being an android were illegal, punishable by death on-sight? What if all the rich folk peaced out and left earth to the rest of us? Can we ever really define what makes us human? This book covers a lot of territory, so it can get in its own way at times, but it‘s a thought-provoking work all the same. 233/1,001 #1001Books #FlourishAndBlotts Set After 2001
“A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.”
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
so-so3/5
It was a rough book for me personally. Loved the idea of the book, but struggled with being thrown into the universe without much introduction. Once I got through the first 30 pages, it went a little smoother. Glad I read it, especially with the rise of AI and the blurring of lines between human and machine. Might reread with a better understanding of the universe.
"The silence of the world could not rein back its greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won."
pickI like sci-fi, but especially sci-fi that wrestles with philosophical questions. Dick covers a lot of ground in this relatively short book: religion, fanaticism, empathy and its limits, what makes someone “human,” what constitutes “life,” the value of life. Not a “light” read, but very readable and thought-provoking.
It's #TBRDeckOfCards time!
Yes, I'm using my SPN cards for this project :)
I drew the Queen of Hearts and the corresponding genre is Sci-Fi, specifically cyberpunk.
I've decided on “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?“ for my title.
What are you going to read, @bklover?
#alphabetgame #letterd Not my favorite book but when I was young it opened doors for me about what a book could be and what strange places a book could take you.
pickA great classic take on a futuristic dystopian society. The title itself has always pulled me in to read this novel and honestly I was pleased with this story. If you‘re a fan of Blade Runner it was a great way to see where the ideas came from but don‘t expect the book to be anywhere near the story of the movie! A look into what it means to live and who is truly alive!
pickI'll need some time to figure out what exactly I think about this one, but it was absolutely mindblowing.
pick🎧 My first time reading this book!! A little dated but loved it. There‘s definitely a resemblance to the movie!
In a near future after the last world war … stop … it takes place in 2021 😆 … well the nuclear fallout or snow is killing everything that lives so most of humanity takes off to the stars & every off world household will get an Android.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 👇🏻
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 51.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
Guess who‘s car broke down in 90 degree weather. So I‘m currently loitering at a Dollar General to escape the heat while I wait for my car to get fixed😩
Found a couple cool paperbacks tho!
pan2 low ⭐️s
I rarely say this but… I‘d rather just watch the movie.
This story was a bit of a mess that I found hard to follow. Everything seemed to just be happening “because”. The story didn‘t flow well and I found myself hating every single character. The film had me empathizing with both androids and humans but this book had me hoping the whole planet would just implode.
Also spider torture, for me, is as bad as torturing a puppy. 😭
#3Books that have been made into movies.
I LOVE all three movies, but have only read the tagged book (I do own the other two).
@OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI'm a little meh on this one. Parts of it were crazy and wonderful, other parts were weird and kind of off-putting, and other parts were just confusing. I think one of the reasons why the movie works so much better for me is the character of Roy Baty, who is lovely and tortured in the movie but is barely in the book at all.
Read for the #ReadingRush, read a book that inspired a movie you've already seen.
Knit (crochet) night at the park. Dropped off a book at the park‘s #littlefreelibrary
#hookersoflitsy
pickI have had this book in my collection for some time now, but I had always glanced over it.
Far more philosophical in nature to the movie adaptation 'Blade Runner' and plays out in a different way. But that is all to the books benefit, the dust drench atmosphere and deep sociopolitical/nihilistic questions make this very much it's own unique experience.
pickMay #BookSpin done! @TheAromaofBooks
Overall, I enjoyed this. I had never read any Philip K. Dick before. I found it dated in some ways, but not too bad; I'm glad to have read this finally. I loved the prose. The plot rolls along, but I think the heart of the story is in questioning reality, and humanity, what to do with it, or even how to identify it.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (print); Middlemarch (audio)
2. Both!
3. Binti: the night masquerade
Woohoo, it's #BookSpin day! Thanks @TheAromaofBooks 😊
Here are my first 5 in order - my kobo is for Rogue Protocol (Murderbot # 3). I'm really looking forward to all of these!
I've already changed books on this three times, so posting now so I stop tinkering with it. I made a separate #BookSpin list for May to give myself a fighting chance with #bookspinbonanza
Excited to see what order comes up! I'll be reading as many as I can, with a goal of 5.
📚 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
🖋 Dylan Thomas
📼📺 Dallas (the Original TV show)
👩🏼🎤 (Bob) Dylan
🎶Devil‘s Backbone - The Civil Wars
#manicmonday #letterD @JoScho
Published in 1968, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was the inspiration behind the film Blade Runner.
#WrittenInThe60s
#NewYearNewYou @Eggs
so-soInteresting read considering it‘s supposed to be happening in 2021! I really liked the idea but found some of it too “out there” for my preference
so-soThis was ok for me. Blade Runner was based on this book but I hear it is way different. Glad I have not seen the movie yet. There are some parts off this book I really enjoyed but a lot of it dragged for me. #TBRRead #WinterGames #TheFilthyAnimals
OMG I froze walking my son from the car to school!
How is the weather by you today?
Good day to stay in and read.
#OhTheWeatherOutsideIsFrightful
“I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lost a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.”
pickEnjoyed this bizarre book, which spawned the movie Bladerunner.
Thank you so much for all the extra goodies @cobwebmoth ! The chocolate was opened before I had time to take a picture ☺️ I figured it was ok to have the selected book in the picture since I‘m the last to get it.
@Endowarrior21 your package came today as well and I will get that out to @MaleficentBookDragon Thursday morning. I was able to easily get the shipping labels off so I don‘t even need to repackage.
"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more."
Thanks to @TobeyTheScavengerMonk for the reminder that November 2019 is when Blade Runner is set, so I've rewatched the film & am now rereading the book for the umpteenth time.
Harrison Ford played Deckard in the tradition of the world-weary detective, even doing his own homage to Bogart's Marlowe in The Big Sleep: compare the goofy persona each adopts in the book shop/ dressing room scenes. However, PKD's Deckard is a junior-level police 👇🏼
