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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick is a dystopian vision of a disturbing future world. Read my book review at John C Adams Reviews.

https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/do-androids-dream-of-electric-shee...

#philipkdick #dystopia #sciencefiction

#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.

A 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!

I'll need some time to figure out what exactly I think about this one, but it was absolutely mindblowing.

🎧 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!

2 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. 😭

Taking place over the course of a single day in January 2021, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is promoted after his supervisor is attacked by an android during questioning. Deckard is tasked with locating & interrogating the remaining six sophisticated androids who have escaped their servitude on the Mars colony for a better life on the wasteland that is now Earth. Deckard utilizes a special set of questions to determine their empathy levels,👇

Starting a new book. Long overdue to read this one. How cool is this Don Quixote glass?

#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

I'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

#ifyoulikethis
#bladerunner
@Klou

I'm dying 😂 😂 😂

I 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.

May #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.

What a delightful word! I love it.
#wordoftheday #wordnerd

#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

Interesting 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

This 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.”

Enjoyed 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.

As others have noted, November 2019 is when the tagged book, better known as Bladerunner is set. Watching this rain soaked tech noir in high school, 2019 seemed so very far in the #future Above are a few of my PKD books.
#MOvember @Cinfhen

"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 👇🏼

November, 2019. A bleak dystopian nightmare ruled by mega-corporations in which emotionless androids devoid of empathy struggle for power in a world of diminishing resources and environmental collapse. So, to forget all that, I thought I'd watch Blade Runner.

@TobeyTheScavengerMonk Keep on geekin' on!??
Jeter did a third in his sequel series, "Eye and Talon". He attempts to reconcile the differences between DADoES and Blade Runner, with mixed results. Definitely worth a read, though. "Future Noir" is great, I'm sure you'll love it.
I wasn't taken with the new film, but perhaps I should revisit it now that my initial disappointment has worn off and see if it sits any better.

The film Blade Runner takes place in the far distant future of “November 2019” so my plan this month is to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, and Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human.

I‘ll also be watching the Workprint, the Domestic Cut, the International Cut, the Director‘s Cut, the Final Cut, Dangerous Days: The Making of Blade Runner, and Blade Runner 2049.

Because when I geek, I geek hard.

Reading this the day after the climate march gave me chills. A possible future that I hope we can avoid

My mind is back to making weird connections😂 #Dreams made me think of the Phillip K Dick book that was the basis for the film Blade Runner (any excuse for a Harrison Ford pic...)

#SoulSeptember @Eggs

Okay, so this definitely has a good bit of ableism and sexism throughout, but I can't deny that I had trouble putting it down. I could fully imagine the world and its technology, and I liked that it wasn't over-explained. The plot moved along at a quick pace, and it brought up some philosophical questions that will stick with me. An exciting page-turner with just enough weird to make for some really satisfying sci-fi.

I listened to this on audiobook and enjoyed this sci-fi classic set in a crumbling San Francisco full of robots, bounty hunters, and occasions to question the nature of reality.

RIP Rutger Hauer,a wonderful actor who played many a bad guy,though I will remember his role in Bladerunner the most.

I'm not really a huge sci fi fan but tend to enjoy them from time to time. This one just wasn't my favorite. There were a lot of philosophical, almost trippy moments that really just had me confused. Knowing it is the inspiration for Blade Runner, I expected a little more action and a little less drawn out dialogue.

Just in case you feel the need to treat yourself.

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Had to read this for book club. It is utter crap! Garbled rantings and fantasy of a 13 year old boy. I had high hopes but like most sci-fi from this time the heavy handed symbolism and lesson teaching was a total turn off. Why can‘t more sci go be like Star Trek you know discovering new thing, meeting new people, and adventure. Hitchhiker‘s Guide style that‘s what I want. I need to go wash the taste of this out of my mouth!

I enjoyed this novel. Nice, short read, but not lacking in action or detail.