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i do agree with your point regarding morality and how folks aren't necessarily born with that. i guess i just disagree when it comes to traits or attributes, such as empathy. for example, a person can learn society's morals, come to believe in them and strive towards them, and so eventually become a moral or even moralistic person. but they can have all that and still not be an empathetic person - possibly because they never learned how to be empathetic, but also possibly because they weren't bo
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When I first read this last year, I thought it was a good detective/action book that did have some social commentary. On second reading, I realized that "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was so much more than that. Once you know what's going to happen, you realize that every sentence is important. Every musing and interaction foreshadows what's going to happen later in the book. Every question raises ten more. It seems like a simple book and it is easy to read. But, on close examination, it
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This is one of those books I've meant to read for years. I'm a little embarrassed that I never have. It was the inspiration for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
I've just begun, but I love how mundane nature of the spousal interaction of the opening scene is juxtaposed to the outrageousness of existence in a mood-regulated world in which the weather report focuses on the levels of fallout. Lead cod-pieces, indeed. This does, however, make the feel a little more trite than some other PK Dick novels. ...more
I've just begun, but I love how mundane nature of the spousal interaction of the opening scene is juxtaposed to the outrageousness of existence in a mood-regulated world in which the weather report focuses on the levels of fallout. Lead cod-pieces, indeed. This does, however, make the feel a little more trite than some other PK Dick novels. ...more
Aug 31, 2008
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Entropy, Androids and finally a little Empathy.
Don't expect Blade Runner, no brooding alpha male lone wolf here.
Still atmospheric, but different, still excellent as well. ...more
Don't expect Blade Runner, no brooding alpha male lone wolf here.
Still atmospheric, but different, still excellent as well. ...more
listened to audio version.
