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A review by 69beaneater420
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
4.0
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was a weird and enjoyable read. It really kept my attention all the way through and was a really good page turner. I thought the character writing was really well done but I think the strongest point of the book is the world/world building. The world building and the characters to me went hand in hand with each other as if the characters were apart of the world and the world was a character if that makes sense. The prose flowed really well and surprised me at first as I expected it to be really difficult.
There was one ting that sat at the back of my mind throughout the entire book. It feels like there is something missing or something being purposefully withheld from the reader but I can't really pinpoint what it is.
I thought the plot was really really well done but I don't think I can talk about it without spoiling it.
I am going to talk about spoilers a little bit now.
The entirety of the book feels really lifeless; the characters dont really feel like "real" human beings. I have personally summed it up to be the author trying to represent the dying world with the characters as being almost lifeless, or to create a comparison between the androids and the people that, while the reader is being constantly reminded that the androids and the humans are vastly different, it becomes increasingly more difficult to differentiate the two except for a few instances.
Overall I thought it was pretty good, definitely deserving of a reread at some point as I think I might have missed some metaphorical meanings and or just misinterpreted them entirely. This is one of those books I think most people should read or at least give a chance.
There was one ting that sat at the back of my mind throughout the entire book. It feels like there is something missing or something being purposefully withheld from the reader but I can't really pinpoint what it is.
I thought the plot was really really well done but I don't think I can talk about it without spoiling it.
I am going to talk about spoilers a little bit now.
The entirety of the book feels really lifeless; the characters dont really feel like "real" human beings. I have personally summed it up to be the author trying to represent the dying world with the characters as being almost lifeless, or to create a comparison between the androids and the people that, while the reader is being constantly reminded that the androids and the humans are vastly different, it becomes increasingly more difficult to differentiate the two except for a few instances.
Overall I thought it was pretty good, definitely deserving of a reread at some point as I think I might have missed some metaphorical meanings and or just misinterpreted them entirely. This is one of those books I think most people should read or at least give a chance.