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Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I decided to read this book because I bought a poster with 100 books to read in your lifetime. This is book twenty-three on the poster. As with most classics and space/galaxy books, I struggle with this and still didn’t get the story.

This book is based on Rick Deckard. World War Terminus had left the Earth devasted. Through its ruin, Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who stalked in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn’t killing them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal – the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard’s world, things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted.

I knew this wasn’t going to go well. Just like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I got confused. All the space and androids just lost me. I’ve never watched Star Wars or anything like that and don’t really have a lot of interest in space or aliens or androids, so a book based on this was difficult to get into. The storyline kept changing and it just wasn’t my cup of tea. I didn’t really understand the point of view and couldn’t figure out with Deckard was the main character or the villain.

The only thing was keeping me going through the book was the fact that he was going to get this living sheep and then they killed the sheep, the poor soul.

I don’t think I'll be carrying on with this series and hopefully I'll enjoy the next book on the poster.

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jazzy_cat's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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2busyreading's review against another edition

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fast-paced

3.25

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mousecat's review against another edition

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challenging dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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sputnik2's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I'm not a big fan of the ending, as it doesn't match any themes of the prior chapters, however, it was very Vonnegut-esk, which I enjoyed. In a span of 224 pages, Phillip K. Dick has brought the existentialism of humanity to us through only a few characters. It carries many messages and themes and is great to annotate and analyze.
But fr tho, one of my favorites.

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