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Audiobook reread. I probably first read this when the movie came out. It was my gateway drug to Philip K. Dick's work. You can see his sense of disconnection from ordinary reality, but the concept wasn't in full flower. There is a layer of remove from his visions that's slowly pulled away in subsequent books.
You can see where the movie came from, but the book is unique enough to revisit for the world he creates in a half or less populated world, where empathy is practiced as a skill that humani ...more
You can see where the movie came from, but the book is unique enough to revisit for the world he creates in a half or less populated world, where empathy is practiced as a skill that humani ...more

I taught this book in my English class for several years, and it really rewards repeated readings. A lot of people new to PKD get frustrated with his admittedly sloppy plotting, but I think he's concerned with more than 'what happens,' and many of the themes in this novel don't emerge in the first reading. The first time I read it (at 14 or 15) I had no idea what to make of Mercerism, or of Deckard's final encounters with the renegade androids and with Isidore. But Isidore's brief vision of Merc
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Apr 01, 2009
Sarah
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it was amazing
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