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A review by mixaaah
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
5.0
A beautiful book about humanity and empathy, and the most valuable thing being something real.
Filled to the brim with themes and interesting subjects: loneliness, the human need for connection, religion, pondering on the nature of consciousness and life, a stance on violence and a whole lot more – all taking place on a bleak, deserted shell of a planet, where the vibrancy of humanity is the last thing that's keeping the trees in the forest from falling without a sound.
I loved the eagerness and kindness of Isidore, but most of all, the journey of Deckard. I saw the way his empathy grew to encompass androids as a reflection of how I've started to look at animals since becoming a vegetarian. Once you start empathizing with something and seeing it as a living, breathing consciousness... well, like Deckard said: "You can't go back from people to nonpeople".
Not going to pretend like I fully understand the ending, especially what Mercer and the hallucinations surrounding him were all about. But my main takeaway from the book is summarized by this sentence:
'Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
Your perception of reality shapes your reality. Everything you think or feel is true. We feel, we believe, we empathize. And by doing so, we make it real. Even if it's fake.
Filled to the brim with themes and interesting subjects: loneliness, the human need for connection, religion, pondering on the nature of consciousness and life, a stance on violence and a whole lot more – all taking place on a bleak, deserted shell of a planet, where the vibrancy of humanity is the last thing that's keeping the trees in the forest from falling without a sound.
I loved the eagerness and kindness of Isidore, but most of all, the journey of Deckard. I saw the way his empathy grew to encompass androids as a reflection of how I've started to look at animals since becoming a vegetarian. Once you start empathizing with something and seeing it as a living, breathing consciousness... well, like Deckard said: "You can't go back from people to nonpeople".
Not going to pretend like I fully understand the ending, especially what Mercer and the hallucinations surrounding him were all about. But my main takeaway from the book is summarized by this sentence:
'Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
Your perception of reality shapes your reality. Everything you think or feel is true. We feel, we believe, we empathize. And by doing so, we make it real. Even if it's fake.