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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Cassie

Cassie

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Weirdest book evar!

Mercerism? WTF?

Mechanical animals? WTF?

PKD was so high when he wrote that.

(i just finished reading it)
 
I've never even seen Blade Runner, yet alone read the book, YEAH I KNOW I SUCK.
 
It's been a really long time since I've seen Blade Runner. I did watch A Scanner Darkly about a month ago.. that was kick ass weird.
 
Is Blade Runner about Ice skateing?
 
DADOES was great. It fleshed out the society more. The movie focused on the characters.
 
Then there's Tanith Lee's "The Silver Metal Lover."

ROBOT SEX
 
PKD must've been dropping acid when he wrote this book. He's got great ideas but his prose kinda sucks. I KNOW HE'S CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION. He has trouble stringing sentences together coherently. Probably why his books make such great movies.

I didn't like the way it ended.. just him going to sleep all covered with dust and that electric frog on the kitchen table.
 
I love this book and I have watched the film many times. I thought the ending is all about his confusion between what is now android and what is real. He wishes it to be real, but in fact it is not - Is there some ambiguity over wether he is an android or not? Anyway, I like vague endings.

This is the film that has the Olmos quote (Commander Odama) "Too bad she won't live, but then again who does?" This is because in the film he runs off with the android or replicant called Rachael. Olmos shouts it to him as he goes.

Wacky thought this line was "ROBOTS SUCK COCK" - which made me LOL and that is why I sometimes Spam the line.
 
Welsh androids dont just dream of electronic sheep.
 
I need to watch the movie again, because I barely remember anything about it. Mainly just that Rutger Hauer was in it, and kinda what he looked like... it's been a loooooong time since I've seen it. For some reason I thought Hauer played Rick Deckard.. but he actually played Roy Baty. Who had only a very small role in the book. I guess the movie is very loosely based on the book.

I wanted the frog to be real so very badly! I wonder what it was doing out there in the dusty desert.
 
No. Androids only dream of exterminating all the meatsocks.
 
I download books because I won't even go to the library lol.
 
I just order mine online... I would go to a bookstore if they weren't all so far away. I don't like the library because I want to keep the books I like, or trade them with my friends.

Which reminds me I need to go to Amazon.com and spend my gift certificate!

BTW, what is a meatsock?
 
ME
 
the urban dictionary place says it's a slutty woman
 
Lies all lies.
 
Androids don't dream of electric sheep. I can answer that with 100% confidence.
 
YOU, kind sirah, are NO philosophical fun!!!

And I mean that!
 
They dream of real sheep.
 
Philip K. Dick was either high on amphetamines or writing about being high on amphetamines when he wrote 90% of his material.

The man is a legend.
 
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