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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3,5.
Empieza flojo, pero una vez te haces al estilo y la ambientación gana muchos puntos. No obstante, como casi siempre me pasa con la ciencia ficción, me ha gustado mucho la idea, el mundo que plantea y los dilemas de los personajes, pero he conectado poco con ellos y, en general, la novela me ha dejado bastante frío.
[Mención aparte para la patética edición de Edhasa, con una corrección digna de un preescolar (hay, mínimo, media docena de "él" sin acentuar) y una traducción que se intuye que tampoco es la octava maravilla].
Empieza flojo, pero una vez te haces al estilo y la ambientación gana muchos puntos. No obstante, como casi siempre me pasa con la ciencia ficción, me ha gustado mucho la idea, el mundo que plantea y los dilemas de los personajes, pero he conectado poco con ellos y, en general, la novela me ha dejado bastante frío.
[Mención aparte para la patética edición de Edhasa, con una corrección digna de un preescolar (hay, mínimo, media docena de "él" sin acentuar) y una traducción que se intuye que tampoco es la octava maravilla].
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reflective, post-apocalyptic, open ended.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Biggest negative is I had to read an analysis of the ending to understand what this book was really getting at, which I'd say makes this book overly complicated. Understanding the concept though brought it up a full star, and if I had understood going in I think I'd have enjoyed it more.
So, if you are going to jump in to this mellow paced, conflicted, highly abstract science-fiction, understand that it is wrestling with how things that are "artificial" (electric sheep, androids, an empathy box, etc.) interact with our longing for and experience of "authentic" meaning or purpose.
So, if you are going to jump in to this mellow paced, conflicted, highly abstract science-fiction, understand that it is wrestling with how things that are "artificial" (electric sheep, androids, an empathy box, etc.) interact with our longing for and experience of "authentic" meaning or purpose.
Reading this book felt familiar and the reason I have only given this novel 4/5 stars and not 5/5 is because of how closely I have studied both the film blade runner & the Novel A Brave New World throughout high school.
Dick creates a believable world, a world in which our technology becomes so advanced one of the only ways in which to hold onto our humanity is by empathy. But this empathy is not what I would recognize as empathy, it is a version still connected to our humanity but it also stretched and manufactured. The remaining inhabitants of earth try to be seen as empathetic and caring to the few remaining animals remaining on earth that enterprises spring up dealing with realistic looking electric animals;so that the facade can be maintained.
The book essentially deals in what it means to be human and how we treat our planet, our creations and also those that we deem unworthy. This book created an atmosphere of weariness, both in its environs and its characters. I enjoyed this book and recommend it.
Dick creates a believable world, a world in which our technology becomes so advanced one of the only ways in which to hold onto our humanity is by empathy. But this empathy is not what I would recognize as empathy, it is a version still connected to our humanity but it also stretched and manufactured. The remaining inhabitants of earth try to be seen as empathetic and caring to the few remaining animals remaining on earth that enterprises spring up dealing with realistic looking electric animals;so that the facade can be maintained.
The book essentially deals in what it means to be human and how we treat our planet, our creations and also those that we deem unworthy. This book created an atmosphere of weariness, both in its environs and its characters. I enjoyed this book and recommend it.